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Edit of yesterday's meme with accounted for non-voters
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2024
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You're free to say that you're just voting for Kamala or Hitler or whoever because you want to, but if you try to justify it in terms of choosing the lesser evil then you need to show that the general reasoning of choosing the lesser evil is a valid line of thought. If you abandon it whenever it leads you to a conclusion that you don't like, then you don't really believe that it's valid, you're just doing whatever you feel like and using that as a rationalization.
If you follow some other principle or calculus to reach the conclusion that you should support someone who also happens to be a lesser evil candidate, then sure. But your calculus is just that you should vote for them because they're the lesser evil.
To continue your analogy, it's like if someone says, "I'm doubling down because doubling down is a good strategy," vs "Based on a separate cost benefit analysis, I should double down in this situation."
You haven't offered a reason other than lesser evilism, and you have also applied that logic not just to one specific situation, but also to a hypothetical of "Hitler vs Hitler+." It is therefore completely arbitrary to limit it when it leads to conclusions you don't like, and proves that you don't actually believe it.
I really don't though. There isn't an ethics test after the vote. You don't have to show your work. The fact that you're so hung up on this makes me think you just want to "win" an ideological debate, but I'm not having one of those.
You can vote or not, but there's only two possible outcomes at this point. Believe it or don't. Excuse it or don't.
OK, so you're just speaking complete nonsense that you can't defend at all.
Nah, the problem is that it makes complete sense in the imperfect would we actually live in. You want to have a perfectly logical reason to vote, but you're never going to find it, so good luck. You're going to have to compromise somewhere. I'm just honest about when/where.
It doesn't make any sense in the world we live in, which is exactly why you can't defend your position. If there's no defensible reason to vote for someone, then I'm not going to vote for them, obviously.
You're not really being honest because you don't actually believe in lesser evilism. The reality is that you're voting for Kamala because you're perfectly fine with her, and the lesser evil line is something you use as a rationalization to explain away any cognitive dissonance. There's nothing honest about saying that choosing the lesser evil is the basis for how you act when it isn't.
Sure, Jan.