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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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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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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's a nice intellectual way to package the immediate thrill people feel when someone does something really violent they wish they had the guts to do. No, no, no, we're not like that, we're the enlightened ones, just rationally weighing one life against many! But be honest, it's like Spock backing off from his emotion outburst of happiness when he realized Kirk was still alive after thinking he'd killed him. No, I'm simply gratified that Starfleet didn't lose a valuable officer!

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, no way this was like normal cases where estranged wives or business rivals hire hit men.

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