There are no ethical choices under first-past-the-post voting. We must instead make a decision that reduces the most harm.

  • Liz@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    Your options are:

    1. Keep the train going as it is while yelling at the conductor to stop the train.

    2. Replace the conductor with a guy who is obviously going to speed up the train and kill even more people. In fact, they’re going to implement multi-track drifting and start killing people that weren’t in any danger from the first guy.

    I dunno, seeing as how those really are my only two choices, one of them seems a lot better than the other.

    • erin (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 months ago

      I’ve never seen any sort of logical response to this argument.

      Person A: Maybe we should reduce harm

      Person B: But Biden is bad and evil!

      Person A: I agree, but Trump is worse and more evil.

      Person B: These are both the same!

      Clearly, there are people that will be under attack under Trump that won’t under Biden. I’m not voting Republican or Democrat in the primaries, but I’m voting against Trump in the general. Not for Biden, but against Trump, because he’s far more dangerous in the same ways that Biden was, and spreads out his harm to others as well.