• Samvega
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      If your point is “some people think that killing is wrong”, feel free to consider your point proven.

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        You’re choosing between “lots of people being killed” vs “LOOOOOOTTTTTSSSS of people being killed”

        Based on your own morality you have outlined, ethically you would choose to vote Kamala then, as under her far far fewer people will die.

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            No demon at all has created it; other humans have. You aren’t the sole person responsible for responding to it, but your actions will contribute to what happens next, non-action included.

            You can say that this kind of situation implies someone else has done something wrong, leaving you holding the bag, and you’d be right, if nobody had done something wrong, we wouldn’t have a genocide to talk about in the first place- but saying that leaving you holding the moral bag was a wrong thing to do doesn’t change the fact that you are now holding that bag, along with all the rest of us. And about half of us (referring to the people of the US as a whole), if you haven’t noticed, have every desire of causing even more harm. “Neither” is simply not an option when failing to choose the least bad thing will result in someone else choosing the worse one. It’s not fair, it’s repulsive even, but the universe does not work in such a way as to ensure only fair moral choices exist. Morality is a thing we invented, the world doesn’t care about conforming to it.

            Getting the best outcome you have with the bad options presented you matters more than whether or not you feel your own personal hands are clean- because metaphorically clean hands will not save the people of Palestine, and likely would doom some, and others elsewhere, that could have been saved. A clean feeling conscience bought by leaving people you could have helped to die is little more than a delusion of innocence.

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              It’s not fair, it’s repulsive even, but the universe does not work in such a way

              It’s not the universe, it’s the human world. This is a solely human problem, and I do not find myself emotionally attached to the idea of being human.

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                Neither do I, as I’m a transhumanist, but that is pretty much irrelevant to this, because how on earth do one’s feelings about one’s species even have any bearing on this?

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                  because how on earth do one’s feelings about one’s species even have any bearing on this?

                  I don’t think you understand the syntax of my sentence, sorry.

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          There is no genocide that I agree with.

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          Show me a single dead Uighur. Show me any evidence at all.

          Lemme guess, the only evidence you’ll be able to provide is either:

          • Adrian Zenz’s “research” or media citing it.
          • that single picture of the Kashgar inmates watching a drug awareness presentation.
          • testimony from some person in Uighur World Congress (who are such a puppet of US dept of state that they cant even have solidarity with fellow Muslims in Palestine by recognizing their genocide) saying they have missing family members.

          Tell me:

          • what purpose does this genocide serve China?
          • how does China prevent any evidence at all from getting out? Is their great firewall more effective than Israel knocking out every cell tower and cutting all ISP lines? Why can we see that genocide despite Israel spending billions to stifle info getting out? Are Uighurs that much more afraid of retribution than the Palestinians who know they will be martyred for fighting back?
          • why did Muslim majority countries not unite to denounce this “genocide” like they did Gaza? Did Xi bribe them all?
          • where is the satellite footage showing the infrastructure needed to carry out an industrial scale genocide? Why isn’t the US coming forth with it if they have it?
          • do the Han Chinese hate Muslims? If so, why aren’t they also genociding the Hui Muslims who are much more divout?
          • why does Xinjiang have more mosques than all of Europe if they hate Muslims enough to kill off its least devout followers?
          • why UN inspectors came and found no evidence of genocide. How come the report has nothing more than “human rights abuses” (the most severe of which also occur daily in US prisons, who won’t allow inspections from international bodies.)

          You are just another dog of the US State Department. Israel thanks you for your whataboutism to diminish the severity of their very real, US funded genocide. Muslims everywhere appreciate your valient efforts to protect a Muslim group from an imaginary genocide.