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Stance on conflict (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.

-Hannah Arendt, from "Personal Responsibility under Dictatorship", 1964

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unless you're organizing a revolution before November, you better vote against the fascists.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

I will not vote for candidates sending arms and aid to genocidal apartheid ethnostates. if the PSL is on the ballot in my state I will vote for them, otherwise it'll probably be Stein 👍

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Tankies quoting Hannah Arendt when she specifies that she's speaking specifically about totalitarian societies, and not even dictatorships; much less actual functioning democracies. Average tankie reading comprehension. Or, in Hannah Arendt's words from the same essay...

Those who denounce the moral fallacy of this argument are usually accused of a germ-proof moralism which is alien to political circumstances, of being unwilling to dirty their hands; and it must be admitted that it is not so much political or moral philosophy (with the sole exception of Kant, who for this very reason frequently stands accused of moralistic rigorism) but religious thought that most unequivocally has rejected all compromises with lesser evils.

You keep the fascist dogma up, buddy. It'll save your soul someday. :)