• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    22 hours ago

    Both are bad, neither is preferable. The world is not binary, you have other options.

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      20 hours ago

      Guess what?

      You can rank a list of things by preference, even if it contains more than 2 items and multiple items are bad.

      Let me give you an example:

      1. Give an innocent child a candy
      2. Run over an innocent child’s foot
      3. Blow up an innocent child with C4

      2 of those options are bad and indefensible, but between the bad options, one is certainly worse.

      Come back to me when you have an argument that stands up to a light breeze, your “all bad things are equally bad” routine is the kind of nonsense that allows monsters to come into power.

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        19 hours ago

        Right so you go with 1.

        You don’t go with left fash/2 or right fash/3, those are out of the question.

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          19 hours ago

          That’s such a cool story.

          Too bad this isn’t a discussion about that option. We’re discussing the difference between option 2 and option 3, or the lack thereof. You can talk about things you don’t want to choose.

          Dude, wtf man. This isn’t complicated, I don’t know why you’re having such a hard time of it.

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            19 hours ago

            And we’re discussing how some “options” are not options at all, they fall under the bad label and the degree of difference is irrelevant.

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              19 hours ago

              Maybe “options” was a bad choice of word.

              These are things we’re talking about and just because we’re talking about a thing doesn’t mean we are bound to choose it if given them as a choice.

              I can say that I hate one thing more than another thing without ever being forced to choose either of them.
              Just like in my example I’m not forced to run over a child’s foot just because I spoke about it.

              And besides sometimes you ARE forced to choose between a list of bad options. Especially in politics. There is certainly a “least bad” option, and treating everything bad as equal is, like I said before, how monsters get power.

              I refuse to believe that these are the responses of someone having a good faith discussion. You’re clearly trolling, but idky because you’re not being funny or clever. You’re just making tangential nonsense arguments for no discernable reason.