…Thou SHALT kill.**…

** Those we deem guilty/expendable/non-human/…or just feel like killing.

There’s a moral aspect to all that, which Hinderaker gets to, but there is also an intellectual element. The left-wing arguments against health insurance are asinine. Health care is a finite resource. There simply is no way to give everyone unlimited health care. There is no magic system where doctors, nurses, scientists, engineers, and everyone else who works to develop and provide our health care technology are going to both (i) work for below-market wages; and (ii) continue to provide the same level of advanced care. One way or another, rationing is going to happen, whether it is determined by health insurance companies based on the terms of an insurance contract, by government bureaucrats based on regulations, or by the market when smart people begin going into finance or other fields instead of medicine and health care.

And so denying health claims justifies cold-blooded murder? Are these people really stupid enough to believe that there won’t be denied care under socialized medicine? I get that the leadership of the movement is Saul Alinsky-ing their way towards an ideological goal and don’t really care how they get there, but what about the young people following them?

Let’s hope that the morally and intellectually sane cohort of that generation prevails and that the rest of them grow up.

He murdered a man, a husband and father, shot him in the back.

Did you see the press conference where Bragg announced he was going to go after Mangione? My wife’s reaction was that he was trying to rehabilitate his reputation following the Daniel Penny disaster by going after a real bad guy. That sounds about right to me. Or is it a racial thing?