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Waterluviantoday at 2:48 AM2 repliesview on HN

Society is the trolley problem. The balancing act between individual and collective rights is the lever being thrown every time we pass a law or make a regulation.

I can absolutely empathize though. It really is fucked up to experience it in the extreme. Usually the trade-offs are much more minor or have a big time delay or are more abstract.


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cryptoegorophytoday at 5:20 AM

I wonder if this is some kind of prisoners dilemma for society and individual choice.

zmgsabsttoday at 4:42 AM

Lots of societies who started with some killing “for the common good” ended in atrocities.

The statistics on men under 25 are still horrific and suggest this was in fact the latter category: atrocity masquerading behind that euphemism.

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