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.

    • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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      7 months ago

      the uncertainty shifts within the framework from whether my actions will have a good out come to whether i know what actions are moral. i suppose it’s possible that i might not know, but the categorical imperative is pretty easy to apply, so my confidence is much higher than i imagine is possible for any action within a utilitarian frame: you are totally dependent on unknowable circumstances to determine the morality of past actions.

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        7 months ago

        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.