cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8485777
Burn all US politicians
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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The failure in understanding here is that "refusing to play along" is STILL playing along. You are making a choice that you're ok with whatever the uneducated masses decide. This is like basic trolly problem shit. You are given two terrible choices, there is no option for a magical third choice. You can't get out of it by saying you just refuse to participate, because that's just choosing not to pull the lever.
you're conflating "refusing to play" with "choosing not to pull the lever." choosing not to pull the lever still accepts the framing. it still says "these are the only tracks, this is the only lever, so my only choice is yes or no."
actual refusal means rejecting the premise entirely. it means organizing outside the trolley and/or building a world where the trolley doesn't run in the first place.
you say there's no magical third choice. that's exactly what people said to the abolitionists and the suffragettes and to everyone else who ever refused a rigged game, but built a new one anyway.
so no, refusing to play isn't playing along. it's the first real move anyone makes when they stop believing the lever is the only tool in existence.
Sure, whatever helps you sleep at night. I can't help it if you completely fail to understand Baby's First Moral Philosophy Question.
Maybe stop trying to emulate the moral intelligence of an infant