FAQ
Q: why not organize and stop treating the bus as a legitimate entity? why aren’t you working to stop the bus?
A: do both. cut the fuel line. break windows. put oatmeal in the gas tank. but maybe your efforts don’t succeed this election cycle. and if so don’t fucking throw away your vote if it can help your neighbors fucking survive. “harm reduction” is not a political strategy for action. it is a last minute, end of the line decision to save lives, after all other resources have been exhausted.
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If you can convince me voting for Trump will give greater expected value then I’ll do it, but such absurd possibilities like you said usually come with an exact inverse that cancels out its expected value.
Should I let that butterfly flap its wings? What if it causes a tornado somewhere?! Or, what if it not flapping causes a tornado somewhere?! Both are equally plausible, so there’s no point in choosing my actions based on them.
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This is useful though. Pretending there’s no uncertainty is just kidding yourself.
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I want good outcomes, not the feeling of personal moral purity. Outcomes are inherently uncertain. You can say “murder bad, no uncertainty”, but that still leaves the outcome, the part I care about, uncertain.
If I wanted moral certainty above all else, I could just say everything’s moral.