• batmaniam@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    "You won.

    Lol!"

    Everyone who didn’t vote got what they asked for. There were two options. If someone thinks there’s better days ahead so be it, but what’s coming up is part of that same decision. There is no one else to blame. If the pain is worth the long term benefit, then fine, but it was an active and informed choice. The bodies that result were deemed acceptable in service of a better 2028.

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      6 months ago

      Everyone who didn’t vote got what they asked for

      the only thing they clearly wanted was no winner

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        6 months ago

        That was not an option on the table. Again, if you think it’ll lead to a better tomorrow so be it, but acknowledge the bodies paving the road.

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            6 months ago

            Yeah… so does not… that’s the whole damn trolley problem thing… there were clear and defined outcomes for not pulling the switch. May have been justifiable, not even debating that, but you still own the choice.

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              6 months ago

              the whole damn trolley problem thing

              doesn’t have an answer. it’s a thought experiment to expose your personal ethics. deontologists never touch the switch.

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                    6 months ago

                    Didn’t say they did. People die none the less. If that’s acceptable that’s fine, but call it what it is: An acceptable loss.

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              6 months ago

              you can’t be responsible for something you didn’t cause. that’s not how responsibility works.

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      6 months ago

      There were two options.

      Do tell… how does the meaning of the term democracy turn into an enforced choice between a mere “two options” inside your head? “Two options” that, let us not forget, share more similarities than differences and are inevitably designed to benefit the powerful elites that CURATED these choices FOR you?