Luigi Mangione Merely Re-opened Conversation about Old Issue

Luigi Mangione is no pioneer. He isn't the first to navigate the issue of allegedly killing in the name of an abstract concept. 

Student Rodion Raskolnikov also went about exploring what it would be like to end the life of what he assessed as a useless old woman. That is in the novel "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Of course, Harvard graduate Ted Kaczynski also had plenty of ideas about who should die to impede the spread of technology. As we know, he implemented them.

But what Mangione has done is make this serious matter of taking a life a popular - and acceptable - topic of conversation.

In my tarot readings clients have begun talking about their regret about not offing their parents when they were abused children. The musings even get granular as in: "I was a juvenile so what the hell, I would have done a few years and lived the rest of my life knowing I had done the right thing." 

So much of this type of reflection has taken place in tarot sessions that I envision a documentary be made about adults who wished they had murdered their parents. That might provide insight into children who actually do kill today. On average, about five children kill their biological parents every week. 

Also, recently in a support group I attend a veteran in his late 70s shared, with a poker face, that he was part of a troop of soldiers who had killed their superior. The latter had been boasting that he would be shipping out with a promotion and it would be on their backs. He did ship out, in a box. No one in the support group commented, not during, not after. As I read the room, the action was not considered wrong.  

Come to think of it: Skillful defense attorneys, even in civil legal matters not just criminal ones, seek to make sense of aberrant behavior for judges (bench trials), jurors and the public. It was the team at law firm Paul Weiss who helped arrange Michael Milken's plea deal. He wound up with only two years in prison, in addition to a fine. Some speculate the sentence could have been a whopper. Later Milken received a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.

Some are convinced morality is an absolute, codified by the divine. Others, obviously, approach it as a man-made institution which is highly subjective and should be modified with changing times. 

The current antipathy to capitalism, especially its cost-cutting ethos, could get Mangione off the hook legally. Already he has become a kind of hero in the court of public opinion. I weep for the growing number of my tarot clients who have lost their livelihood. They may never make it back to earning a good living. 

Jane Genova * Tarot Card Reader * Intuitive Coach * Medium.

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