• esc27@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Scenario I’ve been playing with:

    Suppose you are kidnapped by two people. They tell you that one of them will shoot you and then let you go, but you get to decide who shoots. Person A says he will shoot you in the head. Person B says he will shoot you in the shoulder. Which do you choose?

    The more think about this the more I like it. Both persons are clearly awful and contributed to the situation. Both could offer better choices but refuse. Both are rather similar in outcomes. But one is clearly worse.

    Is it rational to choose to be shot at all? Is it rational to not choose the better of two alternatives?

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      6 hours ago

      Libs can’t win in reality so they make shit up

      In your hypothetical made up story, kill them both

    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      This is a false dichotomy though. I’d argue the fact that “escape” doesn’t even cross your mind in this hypothetical scenario is damning.

      • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
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        Yes, we would all love to escape. That would be amazing

        We are literally stuck with the 2 currently. No amount of posting on here is going to change. There is literally not enough people who care in this country right now to change it fully.

        You can either have the 2 options

        That’s literally the only options in the US.

        Yes we would love ranked voting

        Yes we would love better options

        Yes we would love for a magical solution to come and save us

        It’s not like that. Trump fans would literally never let that happen right now. And because democrats couldn’t get the votes by not being perfect it may never happen.

        Wanting “to escape” is leaving the fucking country. And you’re free to fucking leave. But if you actually wanted to help, you needed to choose democrate to hopefully get the change you wanted in.

        Now the only way you’ll get change is when everything crumbles, and who knows how many die

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          how about campaigning for other, more radical, revolutionary parties? just admit that you guys somehow grew to like being dipped in sht because who stuck you in this sht barrel told you guys there’s acid outside of it.

          • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
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            3 hours ago

            Campaigning for a better person left us with the shitty person. This is actually real life, not just the internet where we can hoping it better

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      6 hours ago

      Bank robber. Get away driver.

      Would be a good analogy.

      Yes, the bank robber shot and killed the clerk.

      But they are both bank robbers

      Who is more evil? The one that does the act or the one that enables it?

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      16 hours ago

      Then the people who claim to love you choose for you and say that getting shot in the head would be better for you. Any attempt to convince them otherwise is met with absolute disbelief.