Now: “People die all the time, whatever.”

Eventually: “My family are dead and I feel sick, help.”

When people fabricate a short-term reality based on convenience rather than facts, people make a worse world for everyone.

I’m already used to never tasting sugar anymore.

On the bright side, having no reason to consume sugar will have health benefits.

“COVID-19 infections continue to outnumber flu cases and lead to more hospitalization and death than the flu. COVID-19 also leads to more serious long-term health problems. Trivializing COVID-19 as an inconsequential cold or equating it with the flu does not align with reality.”

The point seems to be to try to tell the kind of person who probably won’t read this article that they’re wrong to say that COVID isn’t a big deal.

was recorded saying that the Indian student’s life had “limited value”

When people like this realise their assessment of their own value is boosted solely due to self-serving bias, how will they react? By getting drunk and hurting someone?

Innocent people being killed is important enough to harm people by telling them they’re not welcome to holiday with you, because you disagree with what their government is doing. Yes, that is a form of collective punishment. No, it is not as bad as being killed because you happened to be born Palestinian.

Not for much longer, because human lives are transient. Which is good, because humans seems to prefer making the world worse to making it better.

Many people oppose their government and yet can’t do anything about what it does.

If humans are completely powerless to ensure that moral action is taken, then we shouldn’t exist. Just launch the nukes now.

Because every Israeli voted for the government they now have?

Innocent people are being murdered by a government. Telling people represented by that government that they are not welcome is perfectly acceptable. It is in their hands to change their government more than it is mine.

The issue is the death of innocent people. Inconveniencing people such that they become motivated to stop their government from doing that seems acceptable, to me.