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[-] dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 3 weeks ago

Also not pulling the lever makes you morally responsible if you "stand by and do nothing"

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

That's another way of looking at it

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 weeks ago

Decisions have consequences, doing nothing is a decision.

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml -5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"doing nothing is a decision" is a legitimate position you can argue for, but it is not some kind of settled moral fact that you can just assert without any justification.

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

It's less a moral fact and more a fact of life. If you don't pay bills you get late fees then stop getting the service. If you don't study you don't do as well as studying a little or a lot. If you don't make a move on the girl you like someone else will and/or she'll move on. If you don't stop facism...

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

In politics the don't vote and vote third party are essentially the same of doing nothing until ftfp is fixed.

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

That's literally the point

[-] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Unless the lever is in another country and you're just paying the guy pulling the lever, then "there's nothing I can do".

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