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> Shooting their CEO caused more people to get claims approved

One, it was a middle manager with a CEO title.

Two, genuine question, can you point out how UnitedHealth’s profits relative to peers changed after the shooting versus before?


I am also not advocating anything but ... wasn't the famous Spock line "needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one". The question is of empirically proving it and that's the challenge. The jury may not be co-opted but the judiciary is. I wonder how do we go about proving this.


Utilitarianism is a dangerous mistress when it comes to justifying moral and ethical transgressions. Sounds great until TPTB decide that the half dozen lives that can be saved with your organs matter more than your one life.


If we followed the rules strictly, and not different rules for the rich, why's that a problem?


You don't see a problem with involuntary organ donations from living people?




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