One of the outlying symptoms of evil is to use broad-based rationalizations about systemic problems in order to justify individual acts of evil.
The most recent example: the murder of Brian Thompson, a father who was the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
I know a lot of doctors who don’t like how UnitedHealthcare runs. They think UnitedHealthcare rips off customers and fights them at every turn.
But whatever you think about U.S. health care is irrelevant to the question of whether Thompson should have been shot to death on the streets of New York.
According to The Wall Street Journal, it appears the reading interests of Thompson’s alleged murderer started with ideas about activism but crossed over to an interest in violence at some point. He is an upper-class citizen from an upper-class family. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in computer science and earned a…
