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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But plenty of people cannot stomach voting for poisoning the townspeople in the first place.

But they are not doing anything against that by abstaining from voting. They are still giving their consent to the poisoning, just by doing nothing instead of doing something, that is literally the only difference.

My whole point is that the "inaction is better than action" bias when evaluating options is bizarre to me.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_bias seems to be the term used for the phenomenon.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

But they’re not throwing support behind it. That’s exactly my point.

The option they were given was either “vote for this or do nothing.” Yes, the doing nothing option meant it was more likely a worse scenario would take root.

But no matter what, we were being asked to vote for genocide. Genocide 1.0 or genocide 2.0. That cannot be on the people who don’t want it in the first place.

I definitely get what you’re saying and I agree. The 2.0 option was best avoided. But if that means supporting the 1.0 devs…? It goes completely against peoples moral fabric to support it. Even if that means things could get “worse.” Which, let it not be forgotten that we are still talking about an ongoing genocide.

Not to mention, Kamala’s weak, ineffectual waffling on the issue was still her in campaign mode. That’s best case scenario, and still highly unlikely to be followed through on.

It was a no-win scenario. But we all lost even worse, and everyone understands that. But it was a completely hopeless, no-win quandary.