Thank you for falling for the propaganda and blaming people who didn’t want to support genocide rather than placing the blame at those in power who refused to take the most basic moral stance we can demand of our politicians.
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I suggest you go read more about the Mathematical domain called Games Theory if you think casting one vote amongst millions once every 4 years in a Voting System Mathematically designed so that not all votes count the same, with the only information before casting the vote being what the people who can benefit from your choice say they will do (with no mechanism to enforce their promises), is anywhere near the same as an individual direct choice with guaranteed results between two actions whose possible outcomes the one making the choice knows upfront with absolute certainty.
There should be a special Falacy for pulling out the Trolley Problem for situations where it’s Mathematically not applicable.
So you don’t believe in harm reduction. OK.
I believe in NOT being purposefully deceitful when trying to convince other people, which is what people misusing the Trolley Problem for this situation are.
This is especially so because the logic of the Trolley Problem is an hypersimplification which does not include the kind of things that might actually work in the totally fucked up anti-Democratic system in America - voting in Primaries and being part of Civil Society movements.
The Trolley Falacy is nothing more than thought closing political propaganda.
Those who really believe in harm reduction have been long talking about voting in Primaries and direct political participation supporting Primary candidates who are different, not parroting simplistic bollocks
The only solution to the trolley problem is to kill the trolley driver.
I’m pretty sure “the trolley cannot be stopped no matter what” is an integral part of the thought experiment.
Which is why it’s a bad analogy to apply to real world situations. It only helps trap people into thinking the problem is unsolvable because that’s the way the system works, when in reality if the system is making you choose between things like genocide abroad or fascism at home, you should just change the system.
More like: the only problem to the trolley problem is to preach extreme action and do nothing.
Go for it. Otherwise, by doing nothing you’re failing to support harm reduction.
Oh we ABSOLUTELY blame you.