• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    6 months ago

    So the woman in our scenario should decide to choose the “Nice Guy” tactically?

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        6 months ago

        I don’t think it does. A choice fostered upon me at the threat of violence is not a choice at all. I refuse to participate and therefore legitimize such a farce.

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          6 months ago

          You’re free to do nothing, but smart people choose to minimize harm when there are only bad choices in front of them.

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            6 months ago

            Who said I’m “doing nothing”? Voting isn’t doing anything. Only actions outside the ballot matter.

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          Non-participation is not the same as doing nothing. If she chooses to date neither, neither is in her life. If you do nothing, you still get trump or Biden. The analogy doesn’t hold.

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                6 months ago

                My point to this kind of comment is made in that post. We’re just looping at this point.

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                  If the comment was sufficient we wouldn’t be here. It’s a bad analogy. Accept that it has flaws or make your case. Don’t keep pointing to the same insufficient comments as if the only answer is our lack of comprehension. Several people clearly disagree with it on the same grounds so maybe consider you’re wrong.

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                    6 months ago

                    Non-participation is not the same as doing nothing. If she chooses to date neither, neither is in her life. If you do nothing, you still get trump or Biden. The analogy doesn’t hold.

                    Continue with that analogy. What would happen if that woman had no other option. Should she choose the nice guy, the chad or object to the choice being fostered upon her and choose nobody? And if she’s paired anyway with that person, should she then act as if it was her choice, or take actions to disengage from that person and destroy the system that caused these turn of events?

                    It fits. You say the analogy doesn’t fit because “we don’t have a choice”. I tell you to adjust the analogy so that the woman doesn’t have a choice either.