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It's hard to imagine anything more toxic to the cause of healthcare reform than tying it to support for vigilante murder.

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People have wanted health care reform in the US for over a century and it is farther away from ever. This carrot you are waving does not exist, which is why CEO Brian Thompson has filed his last claim denial.

Of course it exists! Most other countries in the world have it. I don't know exactly what the path towards a good healthcare system looks like in the US, but I do know and regret heavily that my uncompromising anti-murder stance will prevent me from endorsing any reform proposal that's associated with Luigi memes.

I'm sorry that your frustrations with the healthcare system have driven you to embrace evil and I really hope the day will come when you reconsider.

I think this kind of moral highhorsery is no longer reasonable when facing a malicious adversary that commands multiple orders of magnitude more resources. This is more of an "anything goes" territory, merited by the instinct of self-preservation.

I'd argue that the word "murder" doesn't really apply here -- the thing in a suit that morning was not a human being, it was some kind of a carnivorous ghoul, a biological hybrid of ruthless corporate profit-seeking mandate and what used to be a person long time ago.

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