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    5 months ago

    Let’s say there’s a trolley that’s on a track going to hit millions of people. You’re standing next to a lever and can make it change tracks where it’ll only kill thousands. Do you pull the lever?

    This is your choice. Inaction is still a choice. You have the ability to participate in something shitty that can make things less shitty than they would be. You also have the choice to stand by and watch as millions die because you wanted to play moral high ground. You will have made a choice and their deaths will be on you. You should think about them when you go to sleep and how you failed them. They’ll be dead because you couldn’t hold your nose and pull the lever.

    You’ll be participating in genocide no matter what, only it will be much worse than it could have been because of you.