Can I get a smug lecture on how you’re choosing the third, disconnected track?

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    I love how Americans live in this world where not supporting the ongoing Israeli genocide against the Palestinian civilian population is somehow a radical fantasy.

    Reminder, the D guy has that guy tied to the tracks because apparently that’s where he thinks he should be. There has been plenty of time to get him out of the way, but the party is like “nah, leave him there. It’s better that way”.

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            No, it’s a philosophical dilemma used to talk about ethics. It’s completely terrible as a tool for what you’re proposing, since all it does is create a strawman like the one OP has made.

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              … its defined as a thought experiment and I was the one saying it wasnt a tool.

              W/e youre protesting too much.

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                You were the one saying it was a logic test. You then went on to call it

                a thought experiment meant to elucidate or test an argument or theory

                Which would make it a rhetorical tool, wether you want to call it that or not.
                Which is why I pointed out you’re wrong.

                W/e youre protesting too much.

                I think I’m gonna have to use this one whenever someone disagrees with me. What a copout.

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                  schrodinger’s cat, thats a rhetorical tool?

                  Youre not even disagreeing with me youre just protesting.

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                    schrodinger’s cat, thats a rhetorical tool?

                    I dunno know, would a salmon still be a fish if it had legs? Since we’re just saying shit that has nothing to do with what’s going on.
                    We’re talking about the trolley problem, the philosophical dilemma. You’re the one arguing it’s something else.

                    oure not even disagreeing with me youre just protesting.

                    you’re not even doing the thing you’re just doing a synonym.