You know, I've come to the conclusion that the reason I felt absolutely nothing beyond a mild joy when I saw the UnitedHealth CEO had been shot dead is pretty straightforward.

For the entirety of my life, billionaires, CEOs, and especially healthcare executives have been doing their damnedest to prove to us that even a sea slug has more empathy than they do. These are not people with a shred of conscience -- they have shown that 'earning' a mere dollar is more than worth the cost of a human life, and demonstrated it over and over, with United denying one in three claims on intrinsically spurious grounds. And now with BCBS stating that surgeries have to be under X amount of time.

I do not personally take great joy in it, because all human life intrinsically has meaning, but don't expect me to be in mourning over someone who clinically sentenced millions of people to death and/or lifelong debt.