The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms.

Zeynep’s response here is disappointing. And she doesn’t seem to understand that the word “depose” on the brass is referring to taking testimony under oath for a court case. Her column is so dissatisfyingly milquetoast and takes no side. No, I wasn’t expecting her to celebrate the assassination, though it should be celebrated. She just holds it all at such a remove.

Having good health insurance and having had it for basically her entire life in the US, she has trouble identifying with and understanding anyone who is not so lucky. It’s a common failing of the PMC liberal class, even for someone so smart as she is.

Unlike Zeynep, I do condone justified murder and I’m glad Brian Thompson was killed. He deserved it and in fact got what he was owed by fate and karma. After WWII, we put concentration camp guards to death who were involved in a few thousand murders. Thompson has the blood of hundreds of thousands on his hands. Why should that sociopath get to live in opulence and comfort with that much harm done to the world?

Do I think his death alone will improve the world? No, I do not. But when reforms are made, you need two sides: the militant wing and the reasonable wing. Both factions are vital. The reasonable wing offers the possibility of alleviating the threat that the militant wing augurs if the less bloody path is not chosen.

That’s the only way societal reshapings work.