• @paf0
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    398 hours ago

    Maybe, but the pager thing was definitely terrorism.

    • @dariusj18
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      -138 hours ago

      I would hesitate to call it terrorism, it was targeted at military persons with an intent at military disruption and any public casualties were collateral damage. It may have been a war crime though.

    • @PugJesus
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      56 hours ago

      Iron law of institutions. Institutions do not make decisions by the rational calculus of the institution. Institutions make decisions by the rational calculus of the decision-makers.

      Israel has managed to quite thoroughly exploit that little detail in capturing our political system.

    • @Soup
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      64 hours ago

      The thing about the trolley problem is that the onvious answer is, when going purely by the numbers, to pull the lever. Too many people don’t pull it(don’t vote) and act like they did the morally correct thing while the several people get smushed.

      And the thing about it is that it’s not a trolley problem at all but simple harm reduction. It’s the same pool of people getting hurt, not two separate tracks. One party won’t protect as many as they should, sure, but the other party will happily throw gasoline on the lot and light ‘em up to keep themselves warm while they wait for the train to come.