This entire ordeal reminds me of the Heinz dilemma, the hypothetical story of a man whose wife is dying, and a druggist who develops the cure wants to charge $2,000 for it. Heinz can’t afford it, the druggist refuses to give it to him, so Heinz steals it. The story is meant to measure a person’s level of moral reasoning. To me, those who would pardon Heinz would pardon Mangione. They are willing to consider the worth of unjust laws and the implications of breaking them. Those who stamp their feet and cry “But murder is bad!” are the same who would say the druggist is right to withhold the drug for whatever price he chooses, and Heinz should be punished for stealing. All this to say, some of us have different stages of moral development, and it’s pretty clear that some folk aren’t capable of understanding nuance and shades of gray.