RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil
September 21, 2020 at 10:24 am
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2020 at 10:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The same ways that anyone else does. In DPs case it was explicit. Power. Power equals responsibility. More power, then, would be more responsibility. A converse claim would be true if so, no power, no responsibility. Less power, less responsibility.
Power used for evil - bad...even more power used for even more evil, moar bad, moar responsibility. The underlying notion, if I could be so bold, is that either voting for or not voting against donald trump is to afford him more power to do more things. This would make a person complicit. That you had the power to oppose it, and thus the responsibility. That even if you think that dems also want to do bad things, a vote for a dem is not more power to do more bad things than any vote/nonvote for trump would be.
We don't have to agree with a person or argue the moral making properties of the universe, to understand and accept that this is a rational product. If it's wrong, it's wrong because it gets a relevant fact wrong, not because there can't be more or less evil, or a way for human beings to know that. I'd say that it does get a relevant fact wrong. The relevant fact. Power. I have no power to effect either outcome.
Shouldn't be that way, but it is.
It would be politically convenient for them if people opposed to their ideology self deport. Cheaper, too.
Power used for evil - bad...even more power used for even more evil, moar bad, moar responsibility. The underlying notion, if I could be so bold, is that either voting for or not voting against donald trump is to afford him more power to do more things. This would make a person complicit. That you had the power to oppose it, and thus the responsibility. That even if you think that dems also want to do bad things, a vote for a dem is not more power to do more bad things than any vote/nonvote for trump would be.
We don't have to agree with a person or argue the moral making properties of the universe, to understand and accept that this is a rational product. If it's wrong, it's wrong because it gets a relevant fact wrong, not because there can't be more or less evil, or a way for human beings to know that. I'd say that it does get a relevant fact wrong. The relevant fact. Power. I have no power to effect either outcome.
Shouldn't be that way, but it is.
(September 21, 2020 at 10:20 am)Eleven Wrote: Then what we really need is a revolution against the government, make them change. Unfortunately, I see myself moving out of the country before people here give a fuck.
And me moving out of the no-more-good ole' US of A is not an empty threat at this point. I see this country going sideways in a manner that I don't want to be around to encounter.
It would be politically convenient for them if people opposed to their ideology self deport. Cheaper, too.
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