# Luigi Mangione something something Morality something something Billionaires

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**Created:** [June 6, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luigi-mangione-something-something-morality-something-something-billionaires/1019285 "2025-06-06T20:35:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luigi-mangione-something-something-morality-something-something-billionaires/1019285/46 "2025-06-06T23:27:12Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> This is my position - It would be a good thing if the next United CEOs took, as a lesson from the shooting, that if they managed their company in a more compassionate way, they’d be less likely to be shot.
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> That’s it. That’s my position (rephrased) from the original post that DT dishonestly, selectively quoted.

That’s quite a paraphrase from:

> [@Identity, politics, and the in-fighting of the left](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-politics-and-the-in-fighting-of-the-left/843199/495):
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> I’m taking about the forces that have shaped society for generations. That’s not the poor, or minorities, or immigrants. That’s the fatcats - billionaires and corporate CEOs. Using bigotry to manipulate and maintain their power and control.
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> I want them to be afraid - so afraid that they embrace progressive policies because they come to believe the alternative is the guillotine. That means decent society needs to see them for what they are - the enemies of decency. At least until our society is significantly remade for the better.

Here you say you want a shooting that already happened to lead a CEO to manage a company better. In the original you actively want the CEOs to be afraid so they will embrace progressive policies in general, and say society “needs” to see them a certain way to produce this result. And let’s not forget the illustrative guillotines.

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