@[email protected] to politics @lemmy.world • 7 months agoCongressman warns Biden to “wake up” after over 100K Michigan Democrats vote “uncommitted”www.salon.commessage-square309fedilinkarrow-up1370
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minus-squareSybillinkfedilink3•7 months agoabstaining from voting for genocidal geriatrics is doing the right thing. it’s an end in itself.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•7 months agoSo the 66% of the population who don’t vote for no particular reason at all are, “doing the right thing.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•edit-27 months agoIt’s functionally the same. All you’ve done is exclude yourself from the system just like what the majority of people do every cycle.
minus-squareSybillinkfedilink1•7 months agothat’s a consequentialist view of ethics, and one to which i don’t subscribe
minus-squareSybillinkfedilink1•7 months agononconsequentialist ethics are strongly preferred by professional philosophers, so someone here might be ignorant, but it’s not me.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•7 months agoNo it isn’t. You’re not standing out or standing up. Nobody knows the difference why you stayed home and let Trump get elected.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•7 months agoAnd don’t affect change. You might as well never have been born, as far as your impact. So it sounds like this is actually only about your moral high ground. That’s cool. Means nothing when Trump is president. Brilliant plan.
minus-squareSybillinkfedilink1•7 months agoit’s not to prove anything. as you said, I’m likely the only person who will know.
abstaining from voting for genocidal geriatrics is doing the right thing. it’s an end in itself.
So the 66% of the population who don’t vote for no particular reason at all are, “doing the right thing.”
that’s a leap of logic
It’s functionally the same. All you’ve done is exclude yourself from the system just like what the majority of people do every cycle.
that’s a consequentialist view of ethics, and one to which i don’t subscribe
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nonconsequentialist ethics are strongly preferred by professional philosophers, so someone here might be ignorant, but it’s not me.
Professional philosophers! Oh, I’m sold.
they’re the experts on ethics
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No it isn’t. You’re not standing out or standing up. Nobody knows the difference why you stayed home and let Trump get elected.
the individuals who abstained for moral reasons know.
And don’t affect change. You might as well never have been born, as far as your impact. So it sounds like this is actually only about your moral high ground. That’s cool. Means nothing when Trump is president. Brilliant plan.
doing the right thing is always right.
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it’s not to prove anything. as you said, I’m likely the only person who will know.