He’s better than the Bible.
“Do you understand what I’m saying?” shouted Moist. “You can’t just go around killing people!”
“Why Not? You do.” The golem lowered his arm.
“What?” snapped Moist. “I do not! Who told you that?”
“I worked it out. You have killed 2.338 people,” said the golem calmly.
“I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!”
“No, you have not. But you have stolen, embezzled, defrauded and swindled without discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You have ruined businesses and destroyed jobs. When banks fail, it is seldom bankers who starve. Your actions have taken money from those who had little enough to begin with. In myriad small ways you have hastened the deaths of many. You do not know them. You did not see them bleed. But you snatched bread from their mouths and tore clothes from their backs. For sport, Mr Lipvig. For sport. For the joy of the game.”
I can’t begin to imagine what motivated this post….
I’ve been perusing reddit threads about this event, and not many tears have been shed.
Also, is this what is meant by “2nd Amendment solutions”? Funny how the NRA nuts aren’t applauding this.
Terry Pratchett was awesome. I highly recommend his Science of Discworld books. Sorely missed.
https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about
Going Postal is such a good book. Incidentally, it contains many observations about predatory capitalism.
@Matt #1: Me neither :-)
Honestly I’ve always wondered why it doesn’t happen more often.
Another Pratchett quote, by commander Vimes: “Scum floats to the top”.
Pratchett is indeed excellent. I rate Small Gods as one of the great books of the 20th century. The sad thing about the Bible is that even its commendable quotes are ignored by its most clamorous followers. Something about camels and needles? Swords and ploughshares?
About you-know-what:
Claim denial rate by different health insurance companies.
.https://www.facebook.com/share/15P6f1Gs7h/
Now, guess which of the companies was run by the guy who got murdered.
Another Pratchett, “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
In that vein, https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Trousers_of_time
Piling on: Pratchett is the best! And Going Postal and Making Money are deeply insightful about our institutions.
Carl Sagan too.