Allah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoWhat are your thoughts on people who didn't vote?message-squaremessage-square130fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat are your thoughts on people who didn't vote?Allah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square130fedilink
minus-squareNSRXN (insurrection)@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoyou can’t be responsible for something you didn’t cause. that’s not how responsibility works.
minus-squarebatmaniam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoThere are differing opinions on that depending on which philosopher is at the switch. What doesn’t change is they all have to watch the carnage.
minus-squareNSRXN (insurrection)@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agobut some of them choose to become murderers
minus-squarebatmaniam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoNo, all of them did. Through action or inaction. So again, if it was in service of a better tomorrow so be it, but it is what it is.
minus-squareNSRXN (insurrection)@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoyou can’t murder through inaction, unless words don’t mean anything.
minus-squaremagnetosphere@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days ago If the risk of death or bodily harm is great enough, ignoring it demonstrates a “depraved indifference” to human life and the resulting death is considered to have been committed with malice aforethought.
minus-squareNSRXN (insurrection)@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agothis is cherrypicking
minus-squaremagnetosphere@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoI don’t understand how can it be cherry-picking when it is a reply to a comment, which stated in it’s entirety you can’t murder through inaction, unless words don’t mean anything.
minus-squareNSRXN (insurrection)@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agothe full definition requires an act. you cherry picked one ambiguously worded section.
minus-squarebatmaniam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoMurder, maybe not, but “allow to die through in-action” sure can.
you can’t be responsible for something you didn’t cause. that’s not how responsibility works.
There are differing opinions on that depending on which philosopher is at the switch. What doesn’t change is they all have to watch the carnage.
but some of them choose to become murderers
No, all of them did. Through action or inaction. So again, if it was in service of a better tomorrow so be it, but it is what it is.
you can’t murder through inaction, unless words don’t mean anything.
this is cherrypicking
I don’t understand how can it be cherry-picking when it is a reply to a comment, which stated in it’s entirety
the full definition requires an act. you cherry picked one ambiguously worded section.
Murder, maybe not, but “allow to die through in-action” sure can.