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The assassination of Shinzo Abe did more to get rid of a decades-long cult than anything else ever done in Japan.

Unfortunately school shooters want to hurt society, they aren’t interested in fame. They want notoriety.

I'm hoping for widespread property damage crimes. IEDs and arson at tesla charging stations and dealerships.

Pain makes people desperate. Desperate people are not known for being particularly calm about things, and it is entirely unreasonable to expect calm and decorum from someone in constant pain (that can be improved if not eliminated by certain treatments that are unfortunately usually quite expensive).

Just saw a post about companies firing people for being disgruntled in a survey.

Unfortunately, that would end up under the Tarasoff precedent and we would be required by law to report it to police and the intended target. There's better ways to weasel around this when filing insurance paperwork, but we'll have to have a designated person in the clinic whose job it is to fight with the insurance companies.

Such security has its limits.

I understand why he did what he did

I'd like to add that he hasn't been found guilty for anything, for all we know he could be a completely innocent person who just happened to fit the profile of someone they could pin it on.

A lot of the discourse seems to revolve around why he did it (e.g. from the article: "nothing he read or posted explains why he gunned down an insurance executive better than this single image in the background of his Twitter profile") but it's important to remember that there's a reason we have presumption of innocence, especially when it comes to how many innocent people have spent their life behind bars or even gotten executed.

Maybe if we're lucky we'll get copycats. Enough of those and there might actually be some change.

I'm all against any form of violence, I want it avoided whenever and wherever possible

The universal motivator for any kind of social improvement should be just that. Suffering breeds violence, whether out of a desperate need to survive, spiteful desire to pay back the pain done to them or a helpless need to reach out somehow for lack of a healthier way to cope. It's not the only reason for violence, but it's one, and to reduce suffering also helps to reduce violence.

Regardless of empathy or morals, a selfish desire for safety alone should push you to support measures that decreases the odds of you getting caught up in something.

I detest violence, I detest murder. But if murder do happen, I prefer to see single greedy CEO's killed a hundred times over all those school children.

Honestly I think that's a big reason people are seeing Luigi Mangione as a hero, no innocent victims. He had a target. He killed that target and no one else. No kids. No innocent wage slaves. Just one bastard.

If violence is the only way a message will get through to our oppressors let it be as little violence as necessary.