I feel like usually this kind of far-fetched hypothetical gets used from the other direction, but we are talking about someone here whose choice is to vote for a Democrat (who had inexcusably enabled Israel) or not try to defeat Trump (who was going to kill many more Palestinians, and other stuff)

this is not on the same planet as comparing someone who literally murders two people and then saves three to someone who does neither

I think we were told that we had to actively help the perpetrators in committing the acts if that cut net deaths. But presumably if you can faultlessly help someone do something, you can usually do it yourself (if I can help someone cross the road, fill their tax forms, or donate money to a charity)

"we were told" by whom? maybe someone in the original thread, though not in the post that's quoted at the top. but if you're talking about voting, your attitude seems to be that voting for someone who does some bad things is as bad as doing the bad things yourself. OP is right to condemn that

Seems to under-describe what’s being asked for. You should vote for them *because* their perpetration of the killing makes a worse killing less likely. The vote isn’t just for

some other good stuff they might do while committing a slightly smaller genocide than might be expected; rather, the invitation is to vote for them because they’ll perpetrate the smaller one.

That looks a lot like an invitation to vote for a genocidaire because they’re a genocidaire (if also a slightly less bad one than an actual or hypothetical other one).

The only person harmed by you doing so, given the alternative, is you. And not in a material way. So... yeah, you are explicitly putting your feelings over human lives

because that means you can effectively never vote for anyone. for any office. let the world be destroyed so long as my hands are clean in it

Did you support and vote for Harris? I'm trying to figure out if this stubborn pigheadednees is out of being defensive "Help the perpetrators" = "vote for them since they were the only other option to the guy who makes everything worse everywhere, including Gaza, and defeating him was vital"