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This entire time, you have been defending someone who says there should be a general strike where everyone walks off their job regardless if kids starve or are taken away from them for neglect and regardless of whether or not kids die.
And suddenly you aren't expecting anything?
Have you read anything the person you have been defending has written? Including the part where they say naming imaginary people as spies is dangerous?
Ah, I see where the miscommunication happened. Only my first response was a defence of them, and only as far as the comment you were responding to. Their opinions are theirs and mine are mine.
I don't think a general strike is a remotely plausible possibility, it simply requires more labour organisation and willingness endure hardship than what currently exists. Me going into hypotheticals and theoreticals is based on this. You're right that If it were somehow we're to happen, the suffering would be immense and I don't know of any remotely realistic goal that it could achieve that would justify it. There's a lot wrong with society but I don't see how bringinging it all to a stop would do much to help.
The main point I initially tried to make(but got very sidetracked from) is that just because someone is advocating for a course of action that causes harm in persuit of a goal, it doesn't mean they are ignorant or uncaring of the harm. But rather that they believe that the end justifies the means.
Sorry for the confusion.
That's fine. It happens.