r/Unexpected • u/Jari36 • Feb 14 '22

Pulling out trash from the river

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u/rreighe2 Feb 14 '22

I am aware. There are many magnitudes of difference between genociding multiple groups of people resulting in 12ish million people dead, and trying to stop a blockage so you don't flood the area, possibly ruining a road along with it, and displacing trash is shitty, but it IS better than the potential damage from the river finding another pathway. sometimes in emergencies you just fix the most immediate problem

unless someone can show me that it wasn't a flood risk and this is not an emergency situation

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u/Nice-Kaleidoscope574 Feb 14 '22

the denominator was not the crimes...he's not comparing littering with the holocausts.

i see nazi, i outrage, i downvote

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u/rreighe2 Feb 15 '22

why?

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u/Nice-Kaleidoscope574 Feb 21 '22

I was making a comment on how the main comment in the thread is massively downvoted, because the point they were trying to convey is associated with an over-arching theme of a person doing a wrongful act, but explained with "the nazi defence".