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    7 months ago

    In the realm of voting the trolley problem is accurate, but I agree that there is more than can be done outside of that. One can pull the lever and rush to try to get the person off the tracks.

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      Yeah maybe it can buy us time to do that

      I hate to feel hopeless, but people always ask me what’s my plan and to be honest … I don’t know

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        oh! I recently asked you what your plan is and I thought you answered well and it gave me enough hope to get by

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            While there’s life there’s hope, friend! We’re around two generations into imagining hope post-apocalypse and we rehearsed one already.

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              I’ll try to cultivate your optimism. I just said to someone else if we try and things perish anyway, at least we’ll die knowing we weren’t complicit

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                I hope we die old and at peace in some kind utopia, or if not we die building towards that for others

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                  I have the same hope. I feel pretty old, so I’m hoping to at least feel like things are gonna be OK for everyone else when I’m on my way out

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            Does the answer to that change anything? We should still do the best we can with what we can do. While saving 1 person and failing to save the rest is absolutely terrible, it’s also better than saving 0 and so still worth doing

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              True, I suppose it’s either try or throw our hands up and cease trying

              If we try and the planet dies anyway, at least we’ll go out knowing we weren’t complicit