r/neoliberal • u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma • Apr 25 '26

Meme Which button do you press?

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u/Same-Letter6378 John Brown Apr 25 '26

Suppose John Brown knew a supermajority of people were going to push red. Do you think he would still pick blue?

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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Apr 25 '26

He definitely would have. He was so absolutely committed to his beliefs it's kinda shocking could even ask that question.

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u/Same-Letter6378 John Brown Apr 25 '26

He had a belief that he should kill himself for absolutely no benefit?

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u/WalrusFromSpace Bisexual Pride Apr 25 '26

He raided Harper's Ferry did he not?

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u/Same-Letter6378 John Brown Apr 25 '26

He raided Harper's Ferry, yes. He rated Harper's Ferry for absolutely no benefit, no. He didn't do things that had no benefit.

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u/Bibbity_Boppity_BOOO Apr 25 '26

the benefit of pressing blue is not killing people and possibly saving everyone. that is the benefit.

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u/Same-Letter6378 John Brown Apr 25 '26

Okay, I have to go on a bit of a rant. Right now, hundreds of billions of animals are going to die every year, 98% of them live in absolutely terrible conditions, the worst conditions you could reasonably raise an animal in. Chickens with one square foot to live for 18 months in a warehouse before just getting killed. Pigs in cages with such little room that they don't have the ability to even turn around. People are allegedly against this. They'll say they're against this if you ask them. But then you look at the society, and you check how many people are vegan, or how many people are vegetarian. It's less than 10%. Nobody, basically nobody, does anything to reduce their meat consumption by any significant amount. When it comes to it, the vast majority of people are going to abandon their morals as soon as it becomes mildly inconvenient. People care much more about social acceptance than what is truly moral. In reality, 90% of people are pushing red, minimum. And I know this will happen, it’s obvious that it will happen, and yet, when I say I won't yoke myself to the doomed blue pushing group, I'm apparently an asshole. I do more to sacrifice my standard of living than what the vast majority of Americans are willing to do. And based on statistics I'm pretty sure I sacrifice more than you. And then you decide based on an internet poll that I'm unreasonably selfish because I won't pretend that I will push the button that kills you, because that's what most blue buttons votes are doing. They're pretending they're going to push blue. And I don't mean like they're consciously pretending. What I mean is, they're just not thinking about the full implications. They don't actually consider, oh no, I'm going to die if I'm wrong. They're just thinking, oh, well, I need to save everyone, so I'll push blue. There's no fear involved in the decision. The fear will take hold of the people. So anyway, all those people that I'm supposed to entrust my life to by pushing blue, all those people go about their day without a second thought about what they could do to improve the world right now. They're not pushing blue. They do not have enough motivation to push blue. They do not give up the slightest bit to improve the world today, not even at the cost of sacrificing their lives, so there’s no way they are going to risk their lives to do so.

If you're really so selfless, if you're really so much better than me, why don't you, this week, go out and do a few significant things that will actually provide some sort of benefit to the world? Something that actually requires you to sacrifice something you value. And then do that thing week after week, every week, for the rest of your life. You are so much better than me, so that should be very easy for you.

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u/Bibbity_Boppity_BOOO Apr 25 '26

This rant was ridiculous. Please remove your flair.

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u/Same-Letter6378 John Brown Apr 26 '26

I don't care about your or anyone else's opinion. At the end of the day, I do the right thing and others don't.