Unpopular Opinion
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1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
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5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
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This sounds great in a general handwavey sort of way except for the fact that (at least to my knowledge) there's no evidence tying the alleged Minnesota assassin's motive in any way to the death of Brian Thompson.
He does appear to consider women's healthcare a form of "violence", however. Should we examine our consciences and outlaw women's healthcare in case people like this take offense and start a civil war?
We can wring our hands and try to find ways to make everything our own fault or we can accept that anyone under enough pressure can become violent, regardless of whether they believe themselves to have righteous intentions when they do it.
This seems like a super confused take. Are you saying that killing healthcare CEOs shouldn't be illegal?!
Not sure where you're pulling that from. Neither the original post nor my response said anything about legality. OP said these assassinations were the "logical sequel" to the CEO attack, without any evidence the two are directly related at all.