▲ 275 ▼ Time to militarize and rule by nuclear terror (crazypeople.online) submitted 9 months ago by hamid@crazypeople.online to c/memes@lemmy.ml 27 comments fedilink hide all child comments Good bye Euro Social Democracy, was fun times before being forced to rearm
[–] spionspion@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (1 child) They have to think about their families all the time. Obviously an US american family is worth more than the world! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] LemmeAtEm@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago This is unironically the big moral dilemma presented by so much western entertainment media it's nauseating. "Would you pRoTeCt yOuR FaMiLy even if it meant the world/everyone else would die?" and the correct moral position, after much soul searching and garment rending is usually presented as: "Yes, fuck the world, you gotta protect you and your own above literally ALL else." And it's always so contrived, with such manufactured scenarios to ignore the fact that in the vast majority of both real and imagined cases, the better option for the world is also going to be the better option for your family. But constantly pitting the individual and their immediate family's interests over the well being of the community and society is fundamentally necessary to maintain the capitalist mode, so they gotta keep reinforcing that false dichotomy as some kind of universal conundrum that is best answered by being as self centered as possible "for your family." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LemmeAtEm@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago This is unironically the big moral dilemma presented by so much western entertainment media it's nauseating. "Would you pRoTeCt yOuR FaMiLy even if it meant the world/everyone else would die?" and the correct moral position, after much soul searching and garment rending is usually presented as: "Yes, fuck the world, you gotta protect you and your own above literally ALL else." And it's always so contrived, with such manufactured scenarios to ignore the fact that in the vast majority of both real and imagined cases, the better option for the world is also going to be the better option for your family. But constantly pitting the individual and their immediate family's interests over the well being of the community and society is fundamentally necessary to maintain the capitalist mode, so they gotta keep reinforcing that false dichotomy as some kind of universal conundrum that is best answered by being as self centered as possible "for your family." permalink fedilink source parent