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if god wasnt real then why do i have perfect meat

y’all should reblog and put in the tags what your first concert and your last concert were, and what your next concert will be if you know

#uhhh corbin bleu/drake bell/vanessa hudgens joint concert #(i was 10 leave me alone)#last concert: the national at glastonbury 2024 #the next: green day american idiot/dookie anniversary tour

piralea-deactivated20260422

trump shooter misses

biden doesn't die from covid

they have the second debate

the bullet from the jfk assassination finally finishes flying around the world and goes through both of them

piralea-deactivated20260422

it appears biden has read my post and withdrawn out of fear

radiofreederry

I hope the fences we mended Fall down beneath their own weight And I hope we hang on past the last exit I hope it's already too late And I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here Someday burns down And I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away And I never come back to this town again

nayohme

one of my favorites of all time

frogmoss1

that’s kamala harris

st7arlight

how did u find out abt biden dropping out of the election

twitter

that fucking supernatural meme

the news (freak)

this post (sorry)

tiktok

something else idk

Voting ended onJul 28, 2024

#a discord post from a british friend

coughloop

So does anyone care about how my day was or are we just posting about some cunt the rest of the night

waskitty

btw i don’t really trust anyone immediately being like “wow trump just won the election” after this bc like. no he hasn’t. is propaganda going to get worse? sure. but the wording of “he’s already won, it’s over now” would also be said by someone who wants you to think it’s no longer important to go out and vote. we don’t need leftists doing his propaganda work for him. please know it is still important to vote! don’t accept defeat! we can still keep him out of office! you still need to vote! it’s not fucking over!!!!!!!!!

tamamita

yesokayiknow

captainjonnitkessler

You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.

aqueerkettleofish

Oh, god, I hate that this is correct.

mctreeleth

"Engaging with the lever in any way makes me culpable for the death that occurs" seems to be the rationale behind most of the voting naysayers, so, and I am quoting wikipedia here, their rational is quite literally one of the positions of the trolley problem;

'...since moral wrongs are already in place in the situation, moving to another track constitutes a participation in the moral wrong, making one partially responsible...'

Their refusal to engage with the trolley problem has made them ignorant not only of how their position IS one of the sides they refuse to take, but also that the other option recognises their desire for moral purity at the expense of obligation, for what it is;

'Under some interpretations of moral obligation, simply being present in this situation and being able to influence its outcome constitutes an obligation to participate. If this is the case, then doing nothing would be considered an immoral act.'

People who refuse to vote because "they're both bad" may be taking the high ground, but there are still people on the tracks.

impossiblepackage

This post is stupid because there IS a third option. The party doesn't have to run biden again! The party can have anyone as a candidate! They're choosing to.

Don't run genocidal candidates if you want my vote. It's that easy. Surely you can find one Democrat willing to run for president who isn't also genocidal, right? Surely it can't be that hard?

mctreeleth

You are still missing the point of the trolley problem, just like OP was saying people do.

The trolley problem is not "why couldn't they have given us a better track"

It's not even "should we take steps to prevent the kinds of people who would tie people to train tracks from having access to those train tracks"

The trolley problem is about reacting to the situation AS IT IS.

The trolley problem is; does taking steps to mitigate harm mean you are therefore responsible for the harm that has occurred as a result of your choices? Do you allow more suffering to happen because you are scared to be tainted by your association with *some* suffering? Or, if you make the choice to abstain from participation, are you then responsible for the harm that occurs because of your choice not to act?

We'd all love some morally pure option. But when voting day comes, there might not be one. So you will have to choose between getting your hands dirty in the hopes of some progress, or clean hands and letting the trolley rampage out of control.