I feel like there was a time when voting for the "lesser genocide" would have just been presented as a hypothetical to show the logical extreme of lesser evil voting, but somewhere along the line people just started advocating that openly and unironically.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

i'm convinced that it's because people considered it in theory only; disconnected from the real human preventable tragedy that it is.

now social media is making it difficult to ignore the impact of this human tragedy and it's forcing people to add their humanity to that theoretical consideration.

i'm also convinced that the age/id verification systems that all western gov'ts are currently implementing are geared towards returning us to a state of giving greater emphasis on theory rather than humanity.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I think there's also an element of online spaces promoting the "extreme" version of every idea. The same way the right is so much more overt and unapologetic about racism, the "centrist" types go to the unapologetic extreme of, "The lesser evil, no matter how evil" with no concern about alienating people who aren't on board with that. It's like the one thing they get to have a "this but unironically" or "yes Chad" response to.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 19 hours ago

agreed. if they stopped and realized that lesser evil is still evil, they would stop trying to defend it.