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LearnedHand

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1. Great essay! And it advances a solution we must keep harping on!

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:27 PM

Aug 24

REJECT THE PREMISE! We, and Dems in general, keep arguing from Republican frames. (Just revisit threads about trans people participating in sports for evidence of this.) Instead, we should be shouting from the rooftops that it is never acceptable to sacrifice any group of humans to “protect” another group of humans.

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A.R. Moxon: There Is No Trolley Problem [View all] Nevilledog Aug 24 OP

Great essay! And it advances a solution we must keep harping on! LearnedHand Aug 24 #1

Captain Miller (Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan) saw it otherwise. Towlie Aug 24 #4

The Trolley Problem is between pulling the lever and killing 1 person or doing nothing and letting 5 persons die. Towlie Aug 24 #2

Kinda like sitting on one's hands RandomNumbers Aug 24 #3