cross-posted, via Microblogs Community.
Stop trying to make simple things sound complex – either because you like hearing the sound of your own voice or because of whatever insecurities drive you. If I’m kicking a puppy in the street, it’s because I’m an asshole. You don’t need to know my motivations. You just need to know I’m an asshole. And stop me.
Yes, this is about Israel.
I used the example of the puppy getting kicked as I’m painfully aware that, at least for some people, the thought of a puppy in distress is unbearable whereas tens of thousands of murdered Brown kids is just another Wednesday. (You’d have a hard time getting a politician who regularly kicks puppies to death elected but folks who consider themselves otherwise decent have not, so far at least, had an issue with voting for people who fund and arm Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.)
I can stop one person from hurting an animal, maybe. If they’re not armed with a gun or knife. If they don’t decide to punch me instead of the dog. If they don’t lie to the cop and say I started the fight.
I cannot stop a billion dollar corporation or a shitty president. At least not in a way that won’t likely get myself killed as well, and even then we’ve seen they just replace the shitty head of the snake with another and just carry on, like UHC.
So this isn’t a great comparison, especially when it skips from blaming “I” to “we” while completely ignoring how difficult it is to form any sort of consensus, much less one where everyone involved has to accept a massive amount of risk.
So stop trying to make complex things sound simple. The posited morality is simple, the action is not.