So, if you don't care if your gov't tortures people or erodes civil liberties or marches towards Authoritarianism and Fascism, it is the same as you torturing people, you taking away civil liberties, you paving the way of the Authoritarian direction it is taking.
I remember in a philosophy class this same argument was used but with a different example. It analyzed the difference between killing someone and letting someone die.
For instance, in one case, you murder someone by drowning them. In another, you see someone fall into a lake who cannot swim. You know this person cannot swim and is gulping water fast. Instead of helping the victim or calling for someone else to, you watch as the sufferer sinks beneath the water and drowns.
What's the moral difference between the two? Which is morally superior to the other? Good post, Schraf.
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