I am Jack. I came from Shanghai. I am currently majoring in biomedical Engineering. I also love astrophysics, but it is too hard to choose as a major. I wish I could pursue a medical-related job after graduating, either as a pharmacist, a doctor, or a medical instrument inventor. I love playing basketball, snowboarding, and trumpet. Basketball keeps me fit and lets me connect with all kinds of people. Snowboarding takes me to amazing places where I get to see some of the most stunning landscapes nature has to offer. I have played trumpets for 10 years, I once performed at the Golden Hall in Vienna with a band from Shanghai. As I am a medical-related worker, the superpower I wish to have is to get rid of all the physical or mental pain.
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Luigi’s story reveals what happens when institutions fail quietly for so long that someone feels they have to scream through violence to be heard. It doesn’t excuse his actions, but it forces us to look at how systems can create conditions where even immoral acts start to feel morally urgent to those left behind.
I really liked your presentation; especially as someone from New York and have been keeping up with Luigi's case. I think that your morality question on whether or not it's ethical to take the life of someone in bringing change was really interesting. I don't think that taking any life is moral, I think that if can be avoided, no lives should be taken. However, in circumstances like these, peaceful protests and such bring no change in which extremes may need to be taken for change to occur. However, I reached a dilemma with this since even when extremes were taken, Luigi killing the CEO in this case, there was barely any change in the corrupt healthcare system.
Luigi’s case is highly debatable. If achieving justice requires killing someone, the moral cost is extremely high. His situation reflects a deeper, systematic corruption within the healthcare system, and eliminating one individual would not solve the larger problem. Even if Brian Thompson were killed, many others like him could easily take his place. However, targeting Brian Thompson might serve as a catalyst to raise public awareness and spark broader social change
I really liked this presentation, this is definitely something that I want to know more about and that I am truly interested in. The American healthcare system fails people often. But, I want to comment about your trolley cart problem parallel. I don't think that the trolley problem would be an accurate parallel as it assumes innocence for all of the people on the tracks. Could it be argued that, in this case, with Brian Thompson, he was the one who tied up the 5 on the railroad? So, would it be 5 innocent people, and the person who sought to murder them on the other track?