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  • Unfortunately you fail to understand the history. Stall man FSF etc is a relatively new organisation started in the 80s.

    Open source was a term long before that. And it was created by early Unix commercial dostros in the 60s. There were magazines etc dedicated to it as a mess with to allow commercial software to spread to multiple platforms. Long before stallmans free as in beer attitude.

    So no the other licences have a place in history and are open source even if you and I may not support their ideals.

    This is why words like libre and free software were formed to include our expanded ideals.










  • All amounts to the same thing.

    Your just a guy eh is in a position to choose 1 or 5. And did not. So from that point. Yes you chose to allow 4 people to die. The death of those people is on your hands when you chose to do nothing.

    You seem desperate not to make the choice but the responsibility for that lack of choice still lies with you.

    Just as you were in a position to choose trump or Harris. So trump is as much your fault for failing to vote a viable alternative. As if you had chosen to vote him. Just because do not like either option dose not forgive you the effect of not choosing.


  • You really seem to be failing to understand. And simple typos are easy to read around. I’m visually impaired so have little patience for that excuse.

    As you said its a thought experiment. As you say you only have two options. Rejecting responsibility is the same as leaving the lever in the kill 5 position.

    Pull or don’t pull. If you pull 1 person dies. If you don’t 5 die. There is no don’t kill.

    Yes the person tieing them to the track murdered them. But just like not voting you don’t get to rewind time amd select better candidates. As the guy in the signal box. Your duty iss to direct the train. Just as your duty is to vote. Not wanting people to have been tied to the track is obviose but not an answer. Unless you are the one willing to invent a time machine. Your duty is still to direct the train.

    Not voting leaves you with trump. Because you live in a fptp nation where 3rd parties just reduce the opposing vote.

    Just like not pulling the lever means 5 folks died. You still had the task to direct the train. Refusing to pull the lever still leave you responsible for 5 rather then one dying.

    Refusing to take responsibility dose not forgive you for failing to select the lesser evil. You are still directly responsible for choosing the greater evil by failing to pull the lever.

    Rejecting responsibility and blaming others is not an option provided. Because the thought experiment recognises you live in a system where you have to make choices based on facts not your hopes and wishes. You live in a world where if you don’t have the option to stop the train. Or prevent the arsehole tying people to the tracks. You still have responsibilities. I refuse to play still has an effect on the world you live in. Like it or not.




  • You are still the one making the choice.

    Hence why the trolly problem is equivalent to a political vote. Not voting has the same effect as not making a choice between one or 5.

    If you are there before they get tied to the track you do more. But that is not the situation you are in on election day.

    On election day its to late to change candidates. Just as its to late to try and untie the victims. If you do not have correct of the breaks or the ability to stop the trolly on time.

    Your only option is to choose or not to choose the lesser of 2 evils.

    Failing to choose is no less evil then choosing the worst.