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    12 months ago

    Let me make sure I understand correctly. Are you saying that opposition to genocide is comparable with wanting “free ice cream?”

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      2 months ago

      So youre saying you not voting will have an effect on the genocide in gaza?

      In the trolly problem, not pulling the lever results in more people dieing.

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          Well then I couldn’t possibly be comparing ice cream to genocide because the supposition is the belief that voting will have an effect on receiving ice cream.

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            12 months ago

            objection

            I asked if you were comparing opposition to genocide to wanting “free ice cream!” The efficacy of voting has no relevance to that question!

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              I was relating how individual wants aren’t negotiated by voting using ice cream as an example. Also voting only in a presidential election is the bare minimum to participating in American democracy. To credit yourself with absolute moral authority you would have to exhaust yourself more than just doing the bare minimum.

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                Hold it!

                Do you consider opposition to genocide to be an “individual want?”

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                  2 months ago

                  Do you not???

                  Otherwise if society has said it is OK then you wouldn’t have a problem would you?

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                    Of course not! And it’s completely absurd to say that it is!

                    For any reasonable, decent person, opposition to genocide is not merely a want, but an unshakable moral foundation! Only someone truly depraved could possibly see opposition to genocide as a mere “want,” akin to a passing desire to eat ice cream!