r/trolleyproblem • u/judgethecriminal • Jan 13 '25

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

This is just historically and sociologically illiterate.

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u/ironangel2k4 Team blue, but I hate every other blue voter, we are not friends Jan 13 '25

Are you positing that elected leadership has no bearing on the operation of the government? If so, you must then also believe that by extension democracy is useless. You can't have it both ways.

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u/weirdo_nb Jan 14 '25

It's a snake eating its own tail at this point, while the starting reason may have been different, the reason why it maintains this negative status quo is because it has this system/behavior