Progressive Politics

If the blame is transitive based on who writes the rules then Voters have more responsibility than that CEO ever did.

I fail to see a definition of murderer that includes this CEO and doesn't include literally everybody. I mean how many future people do we all murder when we drive our cars or even order a package delivered. Unless you're just sitting in a corner eating rice and beans and washing it down with water, you've probably contributed to someone's death by now.

The real murderer is the capitalist US health care system, and that's still very much alive and well. This CEO's death is negligible compared to the problem, instead it's just a second problem.

It's the same mistake that all of society has made for about 5000 years now. Punishing individuals for preventable deaths that are caused by bad systems at best causes suffering for a steep cost and virtually no actual benefit while providing an opiate that keeps us from confronting the actual problem, and at worst actually contributes to those preventable deaths.

Murder involves taking action IMO, denying payments is barely an action and perhaps even reduces the number of actions (depending on if it takes more steps to approve payment). The CEO was just encouraging death, a far more cowardly action.