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It appears that in every thread about this event there is someone calling everyone else in the thread sick and twisted for not proclaiming that all lives are sacred and being for the death of one individual.

It really is a real life trolley problem because those individuals are not seeing the deaths caused by the insurance industry and not realizing that sitting back and doing nothing (i.e. not pulling the lever on the train track switch) doesn't save lives...people are going to continue to die if nothing is done.

Taking a moral high ground and stating that all lives matter is still going to costs lives and instead of it being a few CEOs it will be thousands.

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[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, it'll change things like the French Revolution did, where it kept going and going, executing more and more people who had less and less to do with it, finishing with Robespierre, who argued against executing people at all.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

When the laws don't apply anymore, the law of the jungle will catch up to you.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago

You mean the law of the strong against the weak? We're not winning that battle. We can't even agree to vote consistently, much less in our best interest. What makes you think we can all agree on who's the right person that needs killing?

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

I never said the right people are going to get killed. People are just going to get killed in chaos, sometimes its aligns with the goals of others. This sucks.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Yes, we can't afford to lose any CEOs because it might cause innocent people to be killed. Meanwhile those CEOs are stacking bodies through negligence and folks like you want to defend them. You just confirmed how you'd steer the trolley.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 9 points 1 week ago

CEOs are already killing innocent people en mass. If you have a more effective way of doing things at this point I’m all ears.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago

Voting works, when people actually do it. It doesn't work fast, but it works better than random killings.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 12 points 1 week ago

And in the mean time while you go around shaming people for not voting endless human suffering will continue to happen because you think vigilante justice to right the wrongs in our society is more wrong than just letting the elites continue to stamp on the necks of the people.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 week ago
[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 1 week ago

Voting works, when people actually do it.

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this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2024
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