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What do you think about the concept of lesser evil? (i.e. when faced with selecting from two immoral options, the less immoral one should be chosen.) (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 days ago by Bidah@thelemmy.club to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Inaction that causes a harm is an action. Say for example you’re a muslim that doesn’t vote for a female candidate because you feel she doesn’t do enough to help your people. If the other candidate actively allows great harm to your people, you failing to vote for the female candidate is helping empower the harm on your people.

I just hope we never see this example in real life.

[–] horse@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That's a terrible example. I was talking about having a choice between two evils and not an evil and a woman.

[–] Senal@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That a disingenuous reply at best, the choice is clearly "person doesn’t do enough to help your people" vs "person who actively allows great harm to your people".

The example could probably have done with being gender neutral, but even so.

I'm not sure why you zeroed in on the female part and not the "doesn’t do enough to help your people" part.

[–] horse@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought the implication was that a muslim wouldn't vote for a woman, because she is a woman. Re-reading it, I understand the comment to be an implicit reference to the last US presidential election and Harris' stance on Israel/Gaza. Not being American myself, I don't really have much to say about that particular dilemma.

[–] Senal@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, re-reading it myself , it was a weird example and that may have been where they were going with it.