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[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 51 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What is this meme about even?

Downplaying Boeing's poor safety record by suggesting that they're the subject of repeated attacks that aren't their fault?

Who does this resonate with even?

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is the first response that I think is actually engaging with my question.

My disagreement stems from not seeing that adding of legitimacy as worth as much as actual people's lives that are different in count on the different tracks.

It's okay, I apparently made a faux pas trying to engage to learn here on this issue but this community is clearly more for comradeship like its name suggests rather than outreach. That's fine, I'm going to discontinue this conversation here as my interjections are clearly unwelcome.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml -4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I agree with you on all the ways with which the trolley thought experience falls to reflect reality.

However, the objective isn't really to reflect reality but rather to elucidate the essence of the moral principle being examined.

The principle in this case I struggle to fully understand is OP's idea that there is a threshold of evil beyond which lesser of two evils is morally bankrupt to follow. But why should that be the case when direct action can be combined with voting with no effect? In terms of the trolley problem that would be if you could instantaneously pull the lever while simultaneously attempting to get people off or derail the train or sabotaging the track.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Doesn't the USA subsidize electric vehicles a ton too with tax credits and other subsidies at both the consumer and producer levels?

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I read the article but I'm still confused how this works.

My understanding is the herpes virus DNA is integrated into our own. So once the gene editing molecules snip at the herpes virus damaging it, how does the chromosome get put back together?

Is it actually sniping at two places in the herpes genome in a way that the two ends match up and reform while cutting out a section in the middle?

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

Of course, not roads only, the USA is still terrible and China and India are still not on the list.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/270508/co2-emissions-per-capita-by-country/

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 months ago

North America makes its cities catered to cars rather than people and then people spread out into suburbs. Then North Americans say they can't make the cities suck less because the people are too spread out.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Seems worth noting he's not being charged with anything spying or geopolitics related, but instead he's been charged with theft. No details in the article about what he's accused of having stolen. Seems like almost the only notable fact in this whole story is his being a US soldier in Russia, otherwise there's a ton of Americans accused of pretty crimes while abroad every day.

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