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A cold (maybe rational?) thought: some assassinations are milestones of time; this could be one.
From my point of view: we could feel bad thinking was a "good" assassination, but we've also to think about all the people murdered by UnitedHealth. For the average media is simple to manipulate narration, even without saying the false: he had children, he had a family; we could say the same about many officials of the German Army in WWII, they had families too.
Thompson's sons are not assassin's victims, they are victim of the system. Also Thompson himself could maybe seen as a collateral victim.
I'm waiting to have more information about the assassin to formulate a thought about him (could be a big misinformation about), my comment is about the fact in general.
He had been living separately from his family for some time. He had a DUI conviction. On the same day that the company suffered a ransomeware attack that wiped $46B from it's market cap, he dumped $1.5M of his stock and along with others, was being investigated.
The media has obviously done a whitewash of the guy, as it's in their class interests but to call him a piece of shit would be going lightly.