• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      I know it’s uncooth to dehumanize anyone, but CEOs like Brian murdered (and the rest continuing to murder all day every day) more people than any serial killer in history because they oversaw automating the process of selling the confidence scheme and then murdering the marks when they threatened the profits of the confidence scheme when they got sick.

      People like Jack the Ripper and Ted kaczynski were pathetic, inept hobbyists at mass murder next to an American “healthcare” ceo, and it isn’t close.

      And we don’t hold them in even lower regard solely because they do it to get ever richer, which is the only practiced American religion.

      As humans go, Brian was somewhere between a serial killer and an even larger scale mass murderer like Adolf Hitler in terms of his practiced inhumanity, maybe he should be dehumanized a little.

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        Maybe more like an Eichmann. He ran the Nazi trains on time and didn’t actually kill anyone. He facilitated the process and was happy to a part of the murderous system

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        Serial killers need patterns, process, and specific situations tailored to their individual neuroses. They are driven or compelled to kill to create or recreate certain events. That’s one thing that separates them from mass murderers or spree killers.

        This guy was just in it for money. Mass murderer, yes, but there have been mafia hitmen with more morals than this fuck.

        The scale of this, and the callousness of it, are far closer to Hitler and other genocidal maniacs because none of them wanted to get their hands dirty; they’d never kill anyone, personally. At least serial killers are into DIY and often are quite proud of their fucked up accomplishments.

        It really says something about this guy’s absolute depravity when a comparison to a serial killer makes someone say “you know, that’s offensive to serial killers.”

        I’m not disagreeing with what you said, I’m just frustrated because this guy was worse than serial killers and that is really something else.