Would you say the people who were hiding Jewish families during the Holocaust were the real villains, because they only protected few people rather than everyone? It was never a viable strategy to build a true resistance movement after all.
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The actual analogy is that you’ve decided that, in order to hide a Jewish family, you have to distract the Nazis by telling them where a Romani family is hiding. Even worse, you didn’t have to but did so because you thought it was necessary.
aug 26, 2025, 11:26 am • 0 0 • view
The only moral action would be doing nothing and just letting both families die, right?
aug 26, 2025, 11:38 am • 0 0 • view
As long as the person being sacrificed in the name of expediency isn’t you, I suspect you’re probably fine with this calculation. And, again, it isn’t necessary. There are people who can run for office and win without opting to fuck some people over in the process.
aug 26, 2025, 12:43 pm • 0 0 • view
What if it is necessary at some point? You seem to be trying to avoid that scenario.
aug 26, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Abstractions are fun in a philosophy class, but that’s not where we are. Give me a scenario—in the context of US federal elections—where the only way I can win is by denying a group its fundamental rights. After all, that’s what prompted this whole conversation.
aug 26, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view