Trying to rejoice a bit, but… You know that even if the killer gets away completely, they’ll still catch someone they can convince us is the killer. Coerced confession and all.
At this point it’s no longer punitive as much as deterrent. Their highest priority is gonna be “make an example,” they are not gonna care who the example is
okay, another reason I’m not exactly rejoicing
or, at least, not actively enthusiastic about more assassinations happening
is that I’ve seen what online discourse does to the concept of “this type of person should be killed”
and, while I would like to think that “billionaire CEO” is a pretty clearly defined category of person that won’t get fuzzy around the edges…
…I used to see people say the same about “rapist” and “pedophile”
and then people started applying their feelings about those things to “people who wear leather in public when not everyone around them consented to see them wear leather,” or “people who write a fictional story in which two teenagers make out”
so I am not exactly gonna say I 100% trust the internet to handle billionaire-assassinations responsibly
like.
probably at least this may be a good time to think about where and how and if you can draw a clear line on “how much decision-making power must one have within the hierarchy of an unethical corporation, before one stops being Poor Exploited Worker and becomes Death-Deserving Despot”
just a thing to think about.