We are all very familiar with the trolley problem. You are at a control room where a train has lost its control that no brakes can be made. On the rail, 5 men lie tied that the train will certainly run over them. In the control room, there is a lever you can pull to redirect the train, where the new rail lies 1 single man, where he will be killed instead. Do you choose to kill 1 man in order to save 5?
The problem of this question is tricky. Prima facie, the choice of the lesser evil is obvious. It is a very convenient conditioning through story telling. Because what else other than picking the lesser evil, so that less harm is done to the world? It is still a fun moral question, nonetheless. Everyone has been entitled to one’s opinions with people taking both sides. It is a perfect demonstration of a moral division and democratic participation.
It is convenient because it has no contexts. Who set up that system? Why are you put in charge of the lever with no one else? And after your decision is made, what repercussions will you face? And why is the system set up in a way that you can only choose between 2 evils?
““Evil is evil, Stregobor,” said the witcher seriously as he got up. “Lesser, greater, middling, it’s all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I’m not a pious hermit. I haven’t done only good in my life. But if I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”” – Andrzej Sapkowski, 1993, The Last Wish
Is the lesser evil the perpetual truth? Why should we pick an evil, even if it is lesser? We have simply been conditioned to do so. The lesser evil has always been invoked when it comes to casting votes in an election. It is no coincident, but perfectly aligned. The people who created the elective system want you to pick the lesser evil.
In a vacuum, no one will just pick to pull the lever to kill 1 man. The 5 men are the very enticement for anyone to pick the lesser evil. By creating a greater evil, the lesser evil is ensured to be picked all the time. Why is a passing man now responsible to choose between 2 evils, that his hand must be sullied with blood of either 1 or 5 men? It has always been a scheme to involve you. The person who set up the choice never wants the death of the 5 men, but the 1 man is probably the very person whom he wants dead.
And thus in an election, we are forced to pick the lesser evil. The “lesser evil” is the picked candidate all along. The illusion of choice is that we are always presented an obvious choice.
The same psychology has some milder applications as well. When presented a sales, 2 recommendations are always made with one choice being the obvious candidate all along. We are applied the same psychological conditioning repeatedly. We are then unable to notice how the system is set up right from the start, in elections, in the trolley problem, in moral choices.
If we ever get involved in the trolley problem and have picked the lesser evil, having pulled the lever, killing 1 man, whoever sets up will be satisfied, and the system is fed. The schemer will set it up again, because he knows that we always pick the lesser evil. He will lay his next victim, likely a political opponent, onto the rail, and 5 completely innocent random persons on the other rail just to entice us to kill his desired victim. Eventually the bodies stack up, surpassing if we have walked away.
The injustice of the system is that we should never be involved in the first place. But because the schemer wishes to kill his rival in the good name of the lesser evil, we get involved. It is the same truth that if a political party has to perform evil to our planet, we should not have been involved at all. But as they are the lesser evil in the last election, we get involved and they are justified. And thus they are granted power to rule the earth as they see fit, unchallenged.
And thus, it will be very easy to manipulate. By creating a greater evil, the path to power for the lesser evil is paved.
The trolley problem is never about personal choices. It is the psychological conditioning we are applied to always pick the lesser evil, so that at every election, a greater evil is created as a strawman. And we vote for the lesser evil. And the evil right from the start rules the land.
What can we do? By participating in the system, we empower the schemer who has put the 6 men on the rails. By pulling the lever, we sully our hands with innocent blood and progress the scheme. By deciding to choose to not pull the lever, we pick the “greater evil” and our conscience is scarred.
The only moral choice is to wash our hands and walk away. Evil is evil. If you pick, you empower evil one way or another. A random person should not be burdened with innocent blood. We should never have been here in the first place.
And thus it explains why at the end of the last era of the American Democrats, they were made to embarass themselves. They are set up as the greater evil, and people pick the lesser evil. By naming someone terrorists, we justify the crimes committed in the names of justice. It was not even our fight. But we get involved and sullied our hands with innocent blood.
By picking the lesser evil, our hands are bloodied.
And the full plan is thus revealed. Psychological conditioning of picking lesser evils. Then paired with moral relativism. Then, paired with legalism and tribalism. A perfect band of cheerleaders is thus created to justify any atrocity committed on earth. And we then all share the burden with blood in our hands.
I do hope to see changes in the system. Yet I have witnessed nothing so far. The first step is indeed to walk away. Neutrality is not about sitting on the fence, it is about rejection of evil so that evil may not prevail.
Author: Meritokratias
謎樣人物，因為討厭政治所以特別對政治氣味敏感，教育背景有資訊科技、音樂、教育等，愛好拉丁希臘古文、社會科學、陰謀論、基督教神學。請不要低估我的自閉症。 Mysterious figure, having developed an aversion to politics and therefore the nose to detect political schemes, educated in Information Technology, Music and Education, usually hyperfixated in Romantic and Hellenic literature, social sciences, conspiracy theories and Christian theology. Do not underestimate my autistic powers.
謎樣人物，因為討厭政治所以特別對政治氣味敏感，教育背景有資訊科技、音樂、教育等，愛好拉丁希臘古文、社會科學、陰謀論、基督教神學。請不要低估我的自閉症。
Mysterious figure, having developed an aversion to politics and therefore the nose to detect political schemes, educated in Information Technology, Music and Education, usually hyperfixated in Romantic and Hellenic literature, social sciences, conspiracy theories and Christian theology. Do not underestimate my autistic powers.
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