• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 days ago

    “Sure, I could have voted against murdering everyone in the bus, but I’m only one person, so what’s the point?” isn’t exactly the position I would expect. Or, for that matter, respect.

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        9 days ago

        The analogy is of stopping a vehicle by hitting the brakes.

        You object that one individual has all the control in the situation.

        I point out that if it the brakes were only hit by a vote of everyone in the vehicle, it wouldn’t be less vile to abstain from voting than it would be to abstain from hitting the fucking brakes.