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I get the feeling the StopKilling[Thing] people are starting to push for weaker and weaker laws just so that they can say they did something. EU commission shot down your games initiative? No worries, the already proposed Digitial Fairness Act does the same thing anyways!

California’s proposed bill completely ignores preservation by allowing games to be deleted so long as purchasers receive a refund? That’s a win!

Also I just looked up the California bill, it has been amended.

It used to read:

A refund in an amount equal to the full purchase price paid for the digital game by the purchaser

Now it reads:

A refund in an amount equal to the highest price of the digital game offered by the digital game operator within the 12 months before the digital game operator ceases providing services necessary for the ordinary use of the digital game.

So if the studio drops the price to $1 a year before taking the game away then they can delete everyone’s copy by giving them $1 without breaking this law.

The StopKillingGames people made a fanfare about the initial legislation, but they seem to be silent on this amendment.

You’re absolutely right that a world where this situation can occur is a flawed world, that’s not what the trolly problem is trying to explain. It’s trying to explain the main points of an ethical framework you can use to analyze any arbitrary situation.

Why are people tied to the tracks in the trolly problem in the first place? Because it’s a contrived example to explain a point. The point being that inaction can cause harm and people can be held accountable for their inactions just as much as their actions.

The OP image asks why ethical theorists don’t ask if it’s right to hoard bread while others are starving, but they do. It’s the trolly problem.

The inaction would be not giving away bread to save some starving people.

Rephrasing the trolly problem to be about bread and starving people: Outside your house are 5 starving people. You have enough bread in your house to feed 4 of them. Do you give 4 people bread (pull the lever) or ignore them (not pull the lever)? If you pull the lever, are you responsible for the death of the 1 person? If you don’t pull the lever, are you responsible for the death of the 5 people?

The second question is just the trolly problem rephrased. The trolly problem teaches about causing harm through inaction, and not what to do if you come across people tied to a railway. The second question is asked a lot.

8 months ago, I told myself I’d never comment on the Fediverse again, but I feel the need to after reading your post. Your recent post and comment history is honestly concerning.

Taking a break from arguing about politics online has been amazing for my own mental health. I highly recommend ignoring all social media and news sites for a little while. At least give it a try before doing the whole violent revolution thing!

I appreciate it, though being hostile back won’t change anything. Being mass downvoted, insulted, and called a troll for asking what actions people expect from the Prime Minister has led me to the conclusion that this isn’t a place for discussion.

For myself, I’m not particularly political, so a lot of this is new to me, but I do feel like things need to be better, I just don’t specifically know how they should be done.

Now that is a breath of fresh air!

I appreciate your reply! I felt like I was going crazy with everyone insulting me for some reason. I’m not sure what I did wrong. Maybe there was a better way to phrase my questions? Maybe it’s just the nature of all political discussion now?

I was just curious about what people actually what Carney to do. People say he needs to do better but they won’t say what that entails. Perhaps they can’t say because they don’t actually know. They just feel like he needs to do better.

I get the sense that people want Carney to be a showman like Trump. That he should ratio Trump on Twitter with some sick comeback and yell into a camera once in a while instead of always being boring and diplomatic. While that might make some Canadians happy, I’m not sure how it would help. I wouldn’t say Trump’s way of diplomacy has won the US any favours. Their cities are begging for tourists, their companies are begging for customers, and their politicians are begging to not be shot. Do we really want to emulate their leader? Does a strong man need to yell?

Should Carney be included in that list? Genuine question. I wouldn’t put him in the same league as the others but, from the article and the way people are commenting, it seems like people would disagree.

to be the strong prime minister he said he would be, and not back down from what he said he would do.

Right. I get that. How would Carney go about being a strong prime minister? That’s what I’m asking. The article doesn’t say and the only thing I’ve gotten in these threads is that he should fact check more.

I’m that obtuse apparently. As far as I know every Canadian politician has denounced Trumps 51st state rhetoric. Is there something I’m missing?

I just didn’t see what point the author was trying to make. What did they mean by saying Carney needs to be a “war time prime minister”? I see now that he meant Carney needs to fact check more.

I still haven’t received an answer of what people want the government to do. Fact checking is something the government can do but I don’t see that being what people are asking for.

Has the government not been doing that?

So just fact check? The Canadian government should fact check the US government?

Resist what?

What do you mean by “not cede ground”?

This article doesn’t contain a point. What does the author want the government to do?

Out on the road today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac

I always see those videos where people give kids a walkman or a rotary phone and ask them to figure out what it is or how it works. I’m imagining some medieval merchant handing me an abacus and laughing because I can’t figure it out.