https://midwest.social/post/18536008
Edit of yesterday’s meme with accounted for non-voters
None of these examples are government elections, which is the only place where I’m using this ideology.
That’s not how logic works. If you believe that lesser evilism is a valid ideology, then you don’t get to just arbitrarily exclude the natural conclusions of that ideology whenever they’re inconvenient to you. At that point, you should just say, “I’m voting for Kamala because I feel like it” without appealing to lesser evilism, because by presenting lesser evilism as a reason to vote for Kamala, you’re arguing that because lesser evilism is true in general, it should be applied in this specific situation. You can’t then go back and say, “lesser evilism isn’t actually true in general” without undermining that whole argument.
It seems like you expect me to vehemently defend this ideology “in general” when I told you it’s only for specific circumstances because of the way the system has been rigged since before we were born.
It’s also a smart move to double down bets in specific situations in Vegas, but I’m not going to defend always doing that “in general”. Context matters, and you seem to be ignoring the fascist in the room.
You’re free to say that you’re just voting for Kamala or Hitler or whoever because you want to, but if you try to justify it in terms of choosing the lesser evil then you need to show that the general reasoning of choosing the lesser evil is a valid line of thought. If you abandon it whenever it leads you to a conclusion that you don’t like, then you don’t really believe that it’s valid, you’re just doing whatever you feel like and using that as a rationalization.
It’s also a smart move to double down bets in specific situations in Vegas, but I’m not going to defend always doing that “in general”
If you follow some other principle or calculus to reach the conclusion that you should support someone who also happens to be a lesser evil candidate, then sure. But your calculus is just that you should vote for them because they’re the lesser evil.
To continue your analogy, it’s like if someone says, “I’m doubling down because doubling down is a good strategy,” vs “Based on a separate cost benefit analysis, I should double down in this situation.”
You haven’t offered a reason other than lesser evilism, and you have also applied that logic not just to one specific situation, but also to a hypothetical of “Hitler vs Hitler+.” It is therefore completely arbitrary to limit it when it leads to conclusions you don’t like, and proves that you don’t actually believe it.
