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‘They will vote against Harris’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gaza
  • I'm not the one murdering them, quite literally. Just like in real life, there is no mystical unstoppable force of nature in play. It's another person, like you. Their choices aren't your choices.

    To put it another way, if you sold a kid a bike and he later crashes and dies despite the bike having no faults, are you responsible? Most would correctly identify that you are not responsible in that scenario, as the kid is responsible for what they did with the bike.

  • ‘They will vote against Harris’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gaza
  • Exactly, you think being a murderer is okay.

    That is the core philosophical difference.

    You are completely okay with killing innocent people. These people are not, normal people are not.

    This difference cannot be reconciled. These people will never think the way you do, and thank every God ever imagined for that, as someone needs to be the moral party if only as an example of how normalized and justified pure evil is.

  • ‘They will vote against Harris’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gaza
  • It's a basic philosophical question.

    Say you find yourself locked in a room with a gun, and two people tied to a chair. A voice announces that if you kill one of them, you and the other go free, if you don't kill anyone or if you kill yourself, everyone dies.

    Your solution to this, voting Harris, is trust the voice is telling the truth and figure out who is the worse person so you don't feel as bad about being a murderer.

    Their solution is not being a murderer.

    Maybe the voice is telling the truth, and thus the voice will be a murderer, but they won't be -- you would be though with your choice. Maybe the voice is lying, in which case they made the right choice and you objectively made the wrong one, the worst one.

    Most humans, ideally, would choose to not be murderers, even if that means a psychopath does a murder "because" you refused to.