• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Accepting only ideal solutions mean some problems don’t get solved. More die. Sometimes millions. Millions more people getting murdered is not somehow the murder-is-always-wrong side of the equation.

    The trolley problem is not a cute cartoon and absolute stubbornness is not a virtue. Certainly not when it’s something you were inculcated in from childhood, rather than anything you chose.

    ‘I would let Hitler live if captured’ is vaguely magnanimous. ‘We should’ve shot zero Nazis because allied soldiers attacking camp guards were indistinguishable from people operating the gas chambers’ is dogmatic horseshit.