And I’m being serious. I feel like there might be an argument there, I just don’t understand it. Can someone please “steelman” that argument for me?

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    You actively participate in the murder of people.

    If enough people did not participate the murder would simply not happen.

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      Speaking as an engineer, I’ve contributed to the murder of more people than I can count.

      Speaking as someone who has purchased goods on Amazon and at Walmart, I’ve contributed to the murder of more people than I can count.

      We all kill people. Every single person in this thread has contributed to and benefited from death of another. You drive over a bridge, you benefit from the dead. You live in any extant country, you have benefited from murder. Our entire society is built on the lifelong suffering and deaths of millions, a tiny sliver of guilt at a time.

      Electing Kamala is roughly the same level of moral failure.

      Electing trump is giving an unlocked gun and 1000 rounds to a 7 year old with anger problems. The moral failure is several order of magnitude higher.

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      You are still participating by choosing to be a bystander to injustice. Abstaining when you can support something less bad only says to others that you do not care how bad it gets.

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      So… Palestine is safe now? Not voting or voting Trump leads to people not being murdered?

      I’m pretty sure that’s not what’s going to happen, and I wish I was wrong.