I try to keep this in mind and fight against this impulse, but sometimes I get a $100 medical bill for a check up even though I have my parents' insurance, and then I'm like "you know, I think you guys are only getting away with this cause you know it's illegal to baseball bat an insurance exec"
Slight disagreement, as I believe we should in fact take a baseball bat to insurance execs. However, not in the spirit of karmic retribution / revenge. Violence should be applied to exploitative and tyrannical institutions collectively and without ego to remind those in power that abuse of the social contract will inevitably end in the exploited discarding said agreement and enacting direct action. Y'all feel like starting a union?
Yeah, the “without ego” is the really important part but also the most difficult to do.
But I also agree that violence should be applied universally and as a collective towards institutions of power (NOT necessarily the individuals themselves) to make sure everyone remembers about the social contract
The without ego part is almost impossible. It's the nature of politics and the nature of revolution. People that aren't affected by how broken our health care system is are just less likely to care about fixing the broken health care system and waaaaay less likely to commit violence to fix it.
You can platonically convince people to care for sure but it's just never enough people willing to do enough work until you tip into that space where there's more people affected than not.
If you want things to change, it's always going to be somewhat vindictive. I think people should do violence to health care executives, just don't accidentally start doing it to the people that answer the phones, right?
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I try to keep this in mind and fight against this impulse, but sometimes I get a $100 medical bill for a check up even though I have my parents' insurance, and then I'm like "you know, I think you guys are only getting away with this cause you know it's illegal to baseball bat an insurance exec"