"I don't understand why would Luigi (allegedly) do such a thing!? Poor poor united healthcare parasite!"
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2026
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What a shithole country.
Mental illness epidemic; narcissism, psychopathy, greed, vanity... the worst of humanity enabled to commit crimes for profit.
Sounds like humanity.
Sounds like a system of rampant exploitation allowed to operate with impunity for decades bringing out the darkest parts of our nature. Humans are not fundamentally evil, nor are we fundamentally good. The potential for both exists in all of us and is brought out by circumstances. I believe that through determined efforts we can change our circumstances and bring out the better parts of our nature.
The potential for both exists in all of us and is brought out by circumstances.
Generally agree, but there are hardwired psychopaths. Wikipedia says "A 2008 study using the PCL:SV found that 1.2% of a US sample scored 13 or more out of 24, indicating "potential psychopathy".
It goes on to say 18/24 is 0.1%
I think it's possible to be a psychopath and still live a good and moral life, it's just more difficult.
Based on what?
Even if you can't feel empathy on an intuitive level, you can still learn it on an intellectual level and abide by a moral code. You don't have to feel that something is wrong to know that it is wrong.
But do they? My understanding of psychopathy is that they only mask with learned moral codes to hide in plain sight. These same people are very keen on seizing opportunities that meet their desires regardless of consequences to others or morality if they calculate that they can get away with it.
Prisons are full of stupid psycopaths because they can't calculate this correctly and have poor impulse control. Boardrooms are full of the smart ones with impulse control who can mask successfully.
Psychopaths are human beings still, and humans believe in things / have values and principles. In psychopaths those beliefs and values are not informed by feelings of empathy or compassion, but by consequences and understanding, and that tends to make a selfish worldview more likely but not inevitable. It is possible - even if unlikely - for a psychopath to come to the conclusion that values of altruism and cooperation are in their interest because they like living in the kind of world that results from these values being practiced and want to perpetuate it.
Very thoughtful, but I think this supports my argument more than yours. :p
It isn't. Humanity has methods for dealing with these problems. We used to exile people, frequently to their death.
The problem is that we stopped doing that.
Oh look it’s the death panels
Death panels are when socialism. Freedom are when capitalism.
This was last year, but the point stands.
I'm sure they've changed their ways since then......
Only in the sense that that they might be more discreet so as to not get caught, most likely.
Well at least Thompson doesn't
Similarly Charlie is going on a personal record of not saying anything racist.
A medium .com probably-AI-generated summary linking to a Reuters summary, of a Guardian piece. What's wrong with just linking The Guardian in the first place, since they actually did the work? They're not even paywalled or anything.
(edit: actually I just checked OP's post history and I know exactly why: they're a medium .com content posting bot, their username matches the supposed "author" of the medium piece, which makes me twice as convinced the article was produced by an LLM. It also makes the fact that they're posting a 7-month old article as though it were breaking news just to scrape more engagement doubly egregious. Go fuck yourselves to infinity, medium.com)
A bot? On Lemmy? No way.
* Luigi intensifies *
We know how to fix this 
It's Mario's time to shine now
My dad (a chemo patient) was in the hospital with kidney problems late last year. At one point a couple of palliative care nurses came in to see him and basically told him he was dying and should go into hospice rather than continuing with chemo. My dad initially agreed but later changed his mind and told me he felt he had been pressured by these nurses. I found myself wondering if these nurses worked on commission or something and got paid by insurance companies to convince old people (on very expensive chemotherapy regimens) to give up. One of the nurses looked exactly like Jesus (the traditional white Jesus of wall art fame) and I wondered if he intentionally cultivated that specific look.
Unfortunately, my dad died less than two weeks later, so I can't say these nurses were wrong.
Where are all of the Conservative party supporters in Canada that want provinces to switch to American-style medical care? You guys are always quiet on articles like this.
Did you read the name of the community you're in? Lmao
Private insurance Death Panels