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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I don’t think I said that. Can you show me where I did?

    I will say that you have a slice of responsibility over the future, and you’ll have to live with the consequences of whatever decision you end up making - including the one where you sit on your hands. No matter what you do, you can still complain about it, but the future will be whichever one we collectively steer to. One of those possible futures is worse than the other. So it seems to me that we should steer away from it, rather than wrong our hands about how we don’t like the choices. Sure, you don’t like the choices. They’re the choices regardless. Model the outcomes of each possibility, decide which one you hate the least and steer towards it, because we are getting a future selected from among the possibilities. Jesus is not going to rapture us out of this.












  • I did that. I’m also going to vote against more genocide, done not just abroad but at home.

    In the voting booth, there is no “no genocide” button. Your choices come down to “more genocide” and “less genocide”, and you get to push towards one outcome or the other.

    Personally, I’m going to take a brave stance against “more genocide”, but if your principles keep you from engaging with the real options, well.

    I’m sure the people who die who wouldn’t have otherwise will forgive you.