• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Innocents were dead either way. What’s worse, ten thousand dead innocents or a hundred thousand dead innocents?

    What’s your answer to the trolley problem? Do you let ten people die because you don’t want the moral culpability of one person’s death?

    Combine that with the “drowning child” thought experiment. If you witness a child drowning in a pond, do you have a moral responsibility to save them? If you simply walk away, are you less morally culpable for that child’s death?

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      My answer to the trolley problem is to physically stop the people tying others to the tracks when that was never necessary or helpful. Better yet, grab the people tying innocents to railroad tracks and tie them to the tracks instead, and start shoveling coal into that train. Let me give you a hint here: you are a person tying people to the tracks.

      Why didnt you make it clear to harris that genocide wasnt an option? Where were you centrists when it was time to stand up and be counted? Harris’s stand on soft peddling the genocide wasnt inevitable. She did it because the party let her think she could get away with it. And now look at you, still at it, having learned nothing from losing the election run on your terms.

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        So your actual answer is that you turned your back and played make believe, while deluding yourself into thinking you chose the best option and that everyone else in the world was at fault. Meanwhile you had no effect on stopping a genocide.

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          And neither did you. At least my way could have worked. Yours was utter BS from the very start.