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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"1 billion people on track to die"... I guess we're doing an empirical test of the trolley problem.

We have a choice between inconveniencing some people (especially some very rich people); vs saving billions of lives by switching tracks. And apparently the empirical choice is to equivocate and delay so that we stay on the path of death and ruin. ... It isn't the solution I would have chosen personally.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If you pull the lever, ultimately nothing changes because the tipping point was wooshed past in the 1990s and this first billion will be the lucky ones who dont survive to witness the extinction of the human race

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Titan sub vs 300+ refugees in the med.