Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) shares his message to voters in the Uncommitted Movement who are considering not voting in the presidential race over the Biden administration's handling of Israel.
Are people really claiming Trump isn’t worse? I think it’s more that people think that Harris may be better than Trump (pretty low bar there), but still too bad to vote for. Voting for the lesser evil only goes so far. At some point the lesser evil is still too far from one’s own ideals that voting for them isn’t an option. Different people will obviously draw that line in different places and if I lived in the USA, I’d probably begrudgingly vote for Harris in the coming election.
Democrats basically slandering anyone who refuses to vote for their candidate as Trump supporters is fucking stupid and will hardly convince anyone to change their minds. Especially when it seems democrats have had nothing to offer the left other than “the other side is worse” for as far back as I can remember. If they want the left’s votes, they need to earn them.
At some point the lesser evil is still too far from one’s own ideals that voting for them isn’t an option.
I am ready to compromise on all sorts of ideals. A smaller increase in minimum wage? Okay. A movement towards accepting trans people? Okay. But, when it comes to killing innocent people, I can’t accept a number above zero. That’s just a value that I have, because I don’t like innocent people killed. If the price of political participation is voting for some innocent people being killed, I don’t wish to participate, personally.
Voting for the lesser evil only goes so far.
Perhaps it goes so far as to evil existing while moving more slowly. My evidence for this belief is the world around us: is it getting better?
Democrats basically slandering anyone who refuses to vote for their candidate as Trump supporters is fucking stupid and will hardly convince anyone to change their minds.
Agreed. What would convince me is being very much against killing innocent people.
Here’s the reality; we’re all playing the trolley problem but it’s with real people and unfortunately the only options are kill more people or kill less people. If you know that by not voting you’re killing more people then you can’t claim you’re not responsible for their deaths.
If you really care go out and protest the system after the election. Choosing to let more people die now is a protest but you have blood on your hands.
Here’s the reality; we’re all playing the trolley problem
I’m not, because the trolley problem is a simplistic consequentialist fairy tale that doesn’t exist in the real world.
In the trolley problem, you must choose in a way which allows death, because some sinister outside force has created reality in which you are the only person that can intervene in a situation in which one or more must die.
In the real world, you can choose to not kill.
I live in the real world.
If you know that by not voting you’re killing more people then you can’t claim you’re not responsible for their deaths.
I refuse to vote in a way which condones killing innocent people. To condone killing innocent people is against my moral standards.
Choosing to let more people die now is a protest but you have blood on your hands.
No, I do not. It is the people who carry out murders who have blood on their hands. There is no trolley, there is no trolley problem, and I am not in control of any level on any tracks. You invent those tracks in order to trap yourself into accept the status quo.
I do not accept the status quo. You and your descendants may enjoy it, instead. I hope you do not find out what it is like to be amongst the innocent who have to be killed because someone else has fantasised a trolley that must run you over.
This is word for word from what I remember that some tankie said about a month ago.
I bet it wasn’t, though, but thanks anyway! You’re probably just upset that one of your most recent posts references the trolley problem, and you can tell that I don’t respect your lack of interesting or independent thought on the matter. Bye, and enjoy arguing that killing innocent people is in some way acceptable, because you construct hypothetical situations which demand it!
I also won’t ask you to prove that my post is word-for-word the same as anything else. We’re all on the internet, so we can surely check ourselves. But thank you for lying to me in order to show me that you don’t argue in good faith!
Are people really claiming Trump isn’t worse? I think it’s more that people think that Harris may be better than Trump (pretty low bar there), but still too bad to vote for. Voting for the lesser evil only goes so far. At some point the lesser evil is still too far from one’s own ideals that voting for them isn’t an option. Different people will obviously draw that line in different places and if I lived in the USA, I’d probably begrudgingly vote for Harris in the coming election.
Democrats basically slandering anyone who refuses to vote for their candidate as Trump supporters is fucking stupid and will hardly convince anyone to change their minds. Especially when it seems democrats have had nothing to offer the left other than “the other side is worse” for as far back as I can remember. If they want the left’s votes, they need to earn them.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I don’t want people to get the wrong idea. Voting in FPTP is not the same as approval.
I am ready to compromise on all sorts of ideals. A smaller increase in minimum wage? Okay. A movement towards accepting trans people? Okay. But, when it comes to killing innocent people, I can’t accept a number above zero. That’s just a value that I have, because I don’t like innocent people killed. If the price of political participation is voting for some innocent people being killed, I don’t wish to participate, personally.
Perhaps it goes so far as to evil existing while moving more slowly. My evidence for this belief is the world around us: is it getting better?
Agreed. What would convince me is being very much against killing innocent people.
Here’s the reality; we’re all playing the trolley problem but it’s with real people and unfortunately the only options are kill more people or kill less people. If you know that by not voting you’re killing more people then you can’t claim you’re not responsible for their deaths.
If you really care go out and protest the system after the election. Choosing to let more people die now is a protest but you have blood on your hands.
I’m not, because the trolley problem is a simplistic consequentialist fairy tale that doesn’t exist in the real world.
In the trolley problem, you must choose in a way which allows death, because some sinister outside force has created reality in which you are the only person that can intervene in a situation in which one or more must die.
In the real world, you can choose to not kill.
I live in the real world.
I refuse to vote in a way which condones killing innocent people. To condone killing innocent people is against my moral standards.
No, I do not. It is the people who carry out murders who have blood on their hands. There is no trolley, there is no trolley problem, and I am not in control of any level on any tracks. You invent those tracks in order to trap yourself into accept the status quo.
I do not accept the status quo. You and your descendants may enjoy it, instead. I hope you do not find out what it is like to be amongst the innocent who have to be killed because someone else has fantasised a trolley that must run you over.
This is word for word from what I remember that some tankie said about a month ago.
I actually checked the date to make sure I wasn’t reading an old post.
Thanks for giving me enough evidence to block you.
No problem!
I bet it wasn’t, though, but thanks anyway! You’re probably just upset that one of your most recent posts references the trolley problem, and you can tell that I don’t respect your lack of interesting or independent thought on the matter. Bye, and enjoy arguing that killing innocent people is in some way acceptable, because you construct hypothetical situations which demand it!
I also won’t ask you to prove that my post is word-for-word the same as anything else. We’re all on the internet, so we can surely check ourselves. But thank you for lying to me in order to show me that you don’t argue in good faith!
Tankie detected
In their defense, Beria would have sent even more tanks than “lesser evil” Khrushchev did. Asking for zero tanks is kinda privileged and idealistic.