It might as well be my own hand on the madman’s lever—and yet, while I grieve for all innocents, my soul is at peace, insofar as it’s ever been at peace about anything.
Psychopath.
You can pull a lever to divert the train and save your daughter. But there’s a catch, as there always is in these moral dilemmas: namely, the murderer has also tied his own five innocent children to the tracks, in such a way that, if you divert the train, then it will kill his children.
Zionism, to define it in one sentence, is the proposition that, in the situation described, you have not merely a right but a moral obligation to pull the lever—and that you can do so with your middle finger raised high to the hateful mob.
I deal with emails and social media posts day after day calling me a genocidal baby-killing monster.
I mean this is all just textbook zionism. Zionists are openly genocidal and proud of it, and are aghast that anyone might oppose zionism.
E: to be clear, zionist propaganda gets regurgitated by western media outlets to try and hide the genocide; this is a tactical measure as israel relies on international support to continue its genocide. Internally, israeli news outlets openly celebrate genocide.
This works just as well to defend mass punishments of villages suspected of harboring partisans. Which makes sense, since that is pretty much what the Gaza war is about.
There is also the whole ‘nits make lice’ sort of stuff which was used to justify killing Native Americans (ow look, a group who also has not homeland to return to, which Scott, an American, forgot about). And basically any sort of genocide ever runs on this sort of ‘I have to kill their babies because they might kill mine’ shit logic.
Even Robocop got that you should not shoot through hostages when the bad guy takes a hostage. (Cw: attempted sexual abuse: https://youtu.be/taWMwB1mLhc)
Had me in the first few paragraphs…not gonna lie. Then it flipped to a pro-Zionist theme, and I was all like, “Wut?”. Buddy, how do you not see the utter hypocrisy in your take.
Fuckin’ satire is truly dead. It’s bleeding all over reality and nothing is real anymore.
The metaphor implying the necessity of mass murdering children had you?
No, actually. It was the part about someone killing your whole family, while everyone else sits back and just watches it happen, sometimes with approval. That’s basically what the world has been doing while Israel kills hundreds of thousands of people.
It was also the trolley problem metaphor itself, in the next paragraph. The rest of the world could stop the genocide, by simply cutting Israel off. No more weapons, means no more killing. But it would also leave Israel defenseless.
So, should the world pull the lever and save Gaza, knowing it will ultimately lead to more Israelis dying? Or should they keep giving them more weapons, so that they can keep murdering Palestinians with them?
This is the “leverage” Netanyahu uses to coerce the world into looking the other way, while he keeps killing more children.
Had me in the first few paragraphs…not gonna lie.
Yeah, the first few paragraphs actually felt like they would serve as a defense of Hamas: Israel engineered a situation were any form of resistance against them would need to be violent and brutal so Hamas is justified even if it killed 5 people to save 1.
The more I think about his metaphor the more frustrated I get. Israel holds disproportionate power in this entire situation, if anyone is contriving no-win situations to win temporary PR victories it is Israel (Netanyahu’s trial is literally getting stalled out by the conflict).
I felt dirty reading that. Glad I didn’t persist till the end.
Oh no, you must have missed the surprise incelism, let me fix that:
And as the world learned a decade ago, I was able to date, get married, and have a family, only because I finally rejected what I took to be the socially obligatory attitude for male STEM nerds like me—namely, that my heterosexuality was inherently gross, creepy, and problematic, and that I had a moral obligation never to express romantic interest to women.
Given how often it shows up in his writings, this incel victim narrative is a linchpin to his personality. He even trots it out in the middle of this genocidal screed – in what on first glance seems to be an irrelevant detour. But it’s really not irrelevant. His self-inflicted psychic damage is painfully real and manifests itself in all sorts of toxic and sociopathic ways, including abject dehumanization of an entire population.
