• timicin
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    22 years ago

    voting for the lesser evil will only serve to guarantee that you will forever be voting for the lesser evil and that you will reach the same evil that the alternative raced towards, but slower.

    • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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      152 years ago

      Thats really poetic but observe our choices in reality in relation to the systems we built to usher them in. You don’t cut your parachute just because you’re falling anyway.

    • osarusan
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      22 years ago

      My god, what a stupid take.

      The lesser evil is by definition the better choice! If you refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils, you are effectively choosing the greater evil. It does not get any stupider than that.

      • Sybil
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        12 years ago

        If you refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils,

        you are choosing not to vote for evil.

          • Sybil
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            12 years ago

            in the trolley scenario, i don’t touch the lever. you can choose to be a murderer, but i won’t.

            • @Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip
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              12 years ago

              In the trolley scenario, you chose to let 6 people die. Neither choice makes you a murderer. But one choice causes much more harm than the other.