Shock poll: 41 percent of young voters find killing of UHC CEO Acceptable (40% don't)

[walkingman]

71. There could be several reasons many young people approve of the CEO murder.

Some of it could be the "Robinhood" effect, the concept of “social banditry”. People who operate outside the law and are admired for their efforts to dole out justice in an unjust world — like Robin Hood, or Jesse James.

It makes me wonder what is the value we place on human life.

We saw the loss of life be justified as retribution for an industry that seems to undervalue life. The loss of life was legitimized because the lives of so many have been lost to an unresponsive government that won't do anything to curb gun violence. We saw the public shrug at the loss of life because we, as a culture, have put so little worth on life, which, tells us how the youth views the world around them.

What part of our humanity are we losing when we can justify the unjustifiable. Is this the society we want to be?