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"so we were going to award the life insurance payout for a murder, but since the shooter took time to inscribe the bullets as a type of manifesto, it’s now considered a terrorist attack and is not covered under our terms."
- This is a legit argument. If the purpose of the killing is to intimidate other insurance companies, it's terrorism, and almost all insurance companies have an exception for terrorist attacks.
  It's also why we shouldn't be as upset when mass-shooters aren't called out as terrorists by law enforcement and politicians. There's insurance implications.
  
  I mean, we should be upset about that, just upset at the ridiculousness of the insurance to not pay the victims because of the specific views of the criminal.

Americans never stop surprising me lol, regards for shooting someone not innocent this time!.
If you keep doing this maybe you guys will be able to violence your way to some good.
- I mean, wasn't that the original goal of the second amendment? To allow the population to protect themselves from political regimes that want to exploit them? Makes sense that people use their rights to do something good instead of just building a collection is weapons to show of.
  
  No, it wasn't. That's bullshit the Republicans made up to justify it still applying. It's about defending the nation from attackers. At the time of writing, militias were the common way militaries were formed for most nations. Only the most prosperous had standing professional armies. The brand new US was not expecting this, so militias were seen as the only way to defend itself. This is no longer true, so the second amendment, which bases itself on this premise, is not valid.
  A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
  I still defend people having the right to own firearms, but I also support restrictions. People should have to be trained in it's safe operation, maintenance, and storage, for example. They should also have to prove they have a safe place to store it. There are a lot of ways we can still protect people and allow for firearm ownership and usage.
  
  What I am surprised about is, how united the different political views are in that regard (for now).
  Let's see how big money carves out some loyalist political pawns from the MAGA crowd by mental gymnastics (something something bootstraps). Listen closely to the Fox-News Spin on this story.
- Read up on the French Revolution. Is widely praised for catapulting liberal ideas and democracy, but it went with class warfare and partisanism leading to the decapitation and murder of many om both sides, military dictatorship et cetera
  
  Yeah, the end result of that was Napoleon. Not great.
- Maybe someone finally manages to get Trump
  
  Is the vice president of USA the better one of the two?
  
  That's the bad timeline - T will burn this mother to the ground, a short while o fimmense pain followed by a chance to rebuilt. A smarter fascist replacement will irreversably destroy the foundations of this country and there won't be a rebuilding after that, just a smouldering ruin.

Yeah, but they're on the same side, and it isn't ours...
- They're on the same side in that they are on the side of taking your money and giving you nothing. Ironically, that also means they're not on the same side of this situation where one is the insurer and one the insured.
  
  A broken clock is right twice a day

Do what deny, delay, defend?
- ...depose.

Why?
You, your boss, the executive board, hell the country and the planet even, is completely irrelevant to the ghouls who only see profit. Everyone is replaceable.
Externalities are not a cost feature of capitalism, and when the government fails to prevent the most egregious excesses of the ‘line must go up, forever exponentially’ money chasers, everyone pays the price for their greed.
Communities poisoned because freight trains “need to be umpteen cars long to be profitable” whilst demanding priority treatment on taxpayer funded infrastructure.
Over $60 billion in taxpayer handouts to corporations in the last ten years alone, often with no or weak strings attached, and a legislature that refuses to enforce the clauses and responsibilities that secured those subsidies. Collect payout, ‘restructure and reincorporate’ and poof - there isn’t a company by that name anymore, our contract is void but they keep the money.
Public sector employees driven to destitution by crippling low pay, while Congress voted themselves $174,000 per year rocketing themselves into the top 9% of all earners, whilst we pay for 72% of their healthcare insurance premiums.
- The people who claw their way to those positions, even if not seeing the lion's share, should check their alignment. This is a nice check.

Dude made 10 mill a year and still didn't fix his teeth.
- Dental insurance kept denying him.
- Obvious lack of dental coverage, peasant
- Na, its the smile of a guy thinking "don't shoot me for this, please".

Does life insurance pay out for unnatural causes?
- I'm pretty sure they can tell he didn't intend for this to happen
  
  It looks like suicide to me. His actions resulted in his own death.
  
  But maybe his spouse did? I don't know, maybe I watched too much monk
- Absolutely. Even for suicide given a year or two. Unlike healthcare, life insurance pays on the nose. They only have 1 chance to get it right before customers run away.
  
  Life insurance is actually pretty good about paying out. Their racket is more about the aggressive way they sell you the wrong policy to begin with. They make their money at the time of purchase, rather than by denying pay outs.
  In fact, most insurance, other than health insurance, is actually run fairly well. It's almost like an insurance model isn't the correct model to use for handling healthcare.

Why can't more decision makers do the funniest thing ever? Ask yourself, what would Tim Onion do?

My mother's life insurance policies, many of which she's had for decades, are actually bleeding her dry with premium increases. I'm hoping seeing an accountant can convince her to drop at least some of them. She's so obsessed with "leaving me something" when she dies that she's going into debt to pay for it...
Edit: Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking to get anything from her and I've told her so repeatedly.
- She's already left you the best gift she could. You.

That would be so deserved.

All the CEO's are starting a life insurer hunt.

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