St. Widge said

This point of view strikes me as a result of gaslighting and/or the tendency of people to dehumanize people who they see as not like them or having power over them. It's the same thing that the extremely wealthy do with the poor. They dehumanize them and imagine that they would do anything, including slit their throats, to take what they have. And yet, neither has any real evidence that either of them really would or do act in this way. It's a perception that we are told is true and we all buy it. And it's to the point where people are casually referring to the idea that this or that CEO is "next".

So do you really have evidence that people with money are inherently more evil than people without? If not, think about why you think that way.

As for me, I'm not going to shed a tear for this CEO, but I do find it disturbing how many people are willing to publicly celebrate his assassination and see this as a reasonable response to the world around him. Did he deserve it? Maybe, but meeting evil with evil seldom, if ever, results in a better world. Who draws the line of how evil someone has to be for killing them in cold blood to be justifiable? Do we really want a world run by vigilante justice?

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Sun Wukong said

There have been studies that indicate the uber wealthy and powerful exhibit more sociopathic tendencies. They are overwhelmingly more likely to exhibit dark triad personality characteristics than average people. Its what allows them to succeed at the level they do. You can't have empathy and do what they do.

Also, just...look at the world.

I agree that a world of vigilantes gunning people down in the streets is not good. But we don't need to be sticking up for or defending the rich and powerful, either. They at the very least operate on a principle of what is best for business which rarely is best for everybody else.

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