gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 10 months agoAlabama’s Nitrogen Gas Execution Will Be Cruel and Unusual Punishmentwww.jurist.orgexternal-linkmessage-square131fedilinkarrow-up1184arrow-down156file-text
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minus-squareDreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoPeople recently invented a fancy thing called compromise. It means you can choose your second best preference if your first is not available. E.g. I would preffer steak for lunch but I will take pizza over being hungry.
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agowhen saying what we ought to do, there is no need for compromise at all
minus-squareDreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 months agoYep, sounds like US politics in a nutshell
minus-squareGirru00@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down5·10 months agoAh yes, compromise on your morals, just like a good ol’ steak vs pizza
minus-square1ostA5tro6yne@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agodo you compromise your morals and throw the switch, killing only one person, or stick to your moral convictions and allow it to kill five by your inaction?
People recently invented a fancy thing called compromise. It means you can choose your second best preference if your first is not available.
E.g. I would preffer steak for lunch but I will take pizza over being hungry.
when saying what we ought to do, there is no need for compromise at all
Yep, sounds like US politics in a nutshell
Ah yes, compromise on your morals, just like a good ol’ steak vs pizza
do you compromise your morals and throw the switch, killing only one person, or stick to your moral convictions and allow it to kill five by your inaction?