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A Boring Dystopia
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Why would I what?
Pick between two unpickable options. The third option is to protest until change is affected.
Whoever you think you'd be petitioning in this scenario, it doesn't matter. You have exactly two choices put before you right now, choose one. Or have the choice made for you.
I'm sorry you feel so disenfranchised that those are your only two options. Enjoy your shit sandwich, I guess!
So you agree the shit sandwich is the better choice.
Genocide is never an acceptable choice, no.
You keep going on about entirely unrelated things that have nothing to do with the scenario, weird. Maybe I'm not making the scenario clear enough, if so, I apologise. Let me try to do better:
Imagine you're sitting on a chair in a small room, there's nobody there except a machine with two arms carrying a shit sandwich in one hand, a shit sandwich drenched in vomit in the other. The machine is going to feed you one of them, whether you like it or not. There is no way to protest this event, it is going to happen, regardless of what you want or think or say. You can complain to management later, if you like, but right now you are going to be fed one sandwich. Your choice is only in which one.
Imagine your two choices are genocide and genocide, do you still vote, or rebel? Are you cattle, or man?
You keep bringing up genocide and it's seriously weird because that's nowhere in the scenario. Sandwiches, one with and one without vomit, is what you're choosing.
Lmao. Are you removed? You get the genocide in the middle east despite the dems or repubs being in power. Which rock do you live under?
Yeah. That's not in the scenario though. Do you need more details about the scenario? I can describe the room if you like. The machine is beeping at a steady pace of once per 12 seconds, waiting for you to choose a sandwich.
Your machine means nothing to me, I don't live by the virtue of your machine, lol. The peons that are subject to your machine disgust me, the ones that refuse to revolt anyway.
You are disgusting to me, the same way the Nazis who voted for the Madagascar project disgust me.
Are you too removed to understand what I'm saying? Or do you need a more direct reference?
I don't know what the issue is. It's a simple scenario, isn't it? Is the problem in my description or are you not able to imagine yourself in a hypothetical scenario in general? Incapable of putting yourself into another, imaginary person's shoes? That sounds rough, mate.