#if he's exonerated he absolutely dies mysteriously right before his release

[maryellencarter]

i keep chewing on this as a really interesting example case in ethics. i'm not sure where exactly i stand on it, but the question would be:

suppose yourself to be in the position of the "claims adjuster" (i think this is too generic a nickname to stick longterm but it is funny). suppose you can also see the future, farther than we yet can, such that you know how all the consequences of your actions shake out. suppose you know that you'll achieve the societal effects you want; the real shooter's manifesto is the three words he wrote on the bullet casings, which doesn't give us a ton to go on, but let's say you know you'll start a conversation that will achieve radical healthcare reform.

suppose you also know for a fact that someone -- in this timeline luigi mangione, but if you warned him not to go to altoona, it would probably be some other UHC patient with their medical history visible on their social media -- someone innocent will be arrested, convicted, and executed in a kangaroo-court performance to reassure the high and mighty.

is it ethical to sacrifice one random innocent person, you don't know who and can't get their consent, in order to end the obscene amounts of unnecessary pain and suffering caused by one person you're killing on purpose? and, kind of separate from how ethical it is but also related: would you do it anyway?

questions one cannot discuss in this country without getting your entire college ethics class arrested, i am sure.

you gotta stop showing support for Luigi in a way that implicitly frames him as the perpetrator. you can show support for Luigi as a man and as a suspect who is innocent unless proven guilty, and you can show support for the Claims Adjuster and what they did WITHOUT saying it was luigi, cos that only hurts his case. they can both be heroes, the adjuster for the message they sent and the fear they've struck into the American oligarchy, and Luigi for being an innocent man unjustly paraded as an example of the punishment we face when we step out of line. I hope Luigi is exonerated and freed, and i hope the claims adjuster is still out there having made a clean getaway