On October 23, 1998 a man named James Kopp lurked in the dark outside the Amherst, NY home of Dr. Barnett Slepian. Kopp had a rifle, and when he saw Slepian through the doctor’s kitchen window, he took aim and fired.
Dr. Slepian was hit in the chest and died two hours later.
Kopp was motivated by his belief that Dr. Slepian, who performed abortions, was himself a murderer and needed to die.
I have two important questions for you:
1) Do you have any sympathy for James Kopp and what he did?
2) Do you think of him as a murderer?
Okay, now how do you feel about Luigi Mangione? Do you have any sympathy for him? Do you think of him as a murderer?
If your answers about Kopp differ from your answers about Mangione, then you should think a bit more. If one is a hero to you and the other a murderer then you are playing some serious cognitive games with yourself.
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