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[–] Liz@midwest.social 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

You'll have to be more specific about what blowing up the train maps to in real life before I can tell you whether or not doing so would also kill a shit ton of people.

But to keep it in metaphor, there are also innocent people riding the train and blowing it up would kill them, too.

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Propaganda of the deed is a powerful message

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you made a habit of doing that we'd end to with more deaths and a lower quality of life overall.

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Liz@midwest.social 0 points 5 months ago

Most of them, sure. But killing them with any kind of regularity would have a number of knock-on effects that would severely decrease many people's quality of life.

If your friend has a brain tumor, you don't point a gun to their head and shoot it out. You find brain surgeons and have them remove it under controlled conditions. Supposing you can't find a brain surgeon, it would still be better to learn brain surgery yourself and do a careful and thorough job than it would be to just shoot your friend in the head and hope for the best.