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I'd like to think they're all just Russian trolls but increasingly, I think some people are just selfish or dumb. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (8 children)

And the solution to the trolley problem is obviously to stop the trolley from running over anyone. Thank you for solving this philosophical problem.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    This isn’t a philosophical thought experiment. If there was a real life trolley problem, the solution is to find a way to stop the fucking train, isn’t it?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    the solution is to find a way to stop the fucking train

    And the solution to the electoral college is to just fucking abolish it? I didn't know it was this easy! Surely any second the system decides to abolish itself! Any second now...

    Unless you abolish the system before the November election, either Trump or Harris will become US president. It is mathematical certainty in the same way that neither Harris nor Trump will be teleported to Mars through spontaneous quantum tunneling.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The problem isn’t the fucking electoral college. That’s a smokescreen for the real issues at play.

    Like it or not, if you vote for Harris, you are complicit in genocide. If you don’t like that, I strongly suggest doing something other than sitting around telling people on the Internet that they’re wrong for having morals which do not align with your own.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    I will never vote for Harris for I am not allowed to do so.

    By paying taxes in the US you are far more complicit in enabling genocide by the way. How many shells have you personally financed - including through your productivity when working - may I ask? Obviously you can choose to stop paying taxes and go to prison to become a financial burden. They can't arrest everyone, can they? Clearly that's the answer.

    Every single US citizen is enabling genocide. The question is how you will stop it. And it most certainly won't be through making a cross on a piece of paper every 4 years.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The trolley problem, where the person who is a murderer is the lever puller rather than whoever tied people to the tracks in the first place.

    I think people are abusing that thought experiment a bit.

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