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I wonder what "Irish American Zionist" Joe Biden thinks of this?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (14 children)

"The expansion of Israel and its proxies is an absolute fundamental necessity for the United States..."

  • an unedited quote verbatim from the DNC candidate for Vice President of the United States of America
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Democrats are evil scum, no one should be voting for them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Except the other option is worse. And you are complicit in whoever wins if you don't vote at all.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

One cannot be held accountable for not participating.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Grow the fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Lemmy.ml nonstop trying to get Trump elected

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, you can. It's just a trolley problem, and you're choosing to not flip the switch. It's still your choice and has consequences.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

So if someone gives you a gun and tells you to shoot 10 people in the head or they will kill 20 people, you are saying that it's a moral obligation to shoot the 10 people in the head?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

They are not equivalent situations. More like:

Person A promises to kill 10 people. Person B promises to kill 20 people.

Only one of them will do it, and you choose who. If you refuse to choose, person B will do it. What do you do?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You are morally responsible in some degree for 20 people dying rather than 10. Though, in that example, I seriously doubt that most people would think the moral choice is to shoot the 10 people. Probably because we instinctually know that wouldn't be the end of it or none of the deaths seem inevitable.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Probably because we instinctually know that wouldn’t be the end of it or none of the deaths seem inevitable.

Do you mean temporarily choosing the lesser evil is not a solution?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Only if there's solution you can bring about that isn't one of the evils.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Have you literally never heard of the trolley problem?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

This is what it looks like when the cartoons are replaced with humans.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Non sequitur size: belief-beggaring

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