• TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Rebellion? I don’t like hearing such a word from you," Ivan said with feeling. “One cannot live by rebellion, and I want to live. Tell me straight out, I call on you–answer me: imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears–would you agree to be the architect on such conditions? Tell me the truth.”
    “No, I would not agree,” Alyosha said softly.
    “And can you admit the idea that the people for whom you are building would agree to accept their happiness on the unjustified blood of a tortured child, and having accepted it, to remain forever happy?”
    "No, I cannot admit it.

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky — The Brothers Karamazov

    • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Ok cool. Your choice is between genocide, and genocide but worse. You can proclaim how righteous and moral you are that all the pain everyone around you is feeling is not your fault, because you merely threw your vote away, but that won’t change the outcome, and it won’t make you anything but a moron.

      • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s my fault Biden won’t declare his intentions to stop the genocide. I’m to blame everybody. My vote has doomed us all. The horror.

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      “And can you admit the idea that the people for whom you are building would agree to accept their happiness on the unjustified blood of a tortured child, and having accepted it, to remain forever happy?”

      “No, I cannot admit it.”

      Dostoevsky never met American liberals lol.