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To those in countries where democracy might last another election - harm reduction is not optional
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
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The problem with this is that the choice isn't cliff or ice cream. The choice is the cliff in front of us or the cliff around the corner.
Ice cream won't fix our problems either, but I agree that a more dire comparison is apt. In either case, one option offers immediate and unconditional death and destruction, and the other option offers a little more time before the next crossroads of that sort. It seems intuitive to me that, unless one is suicidal (and on a national scale, that is, necessarily, advocating for the deaths of millions other than yourself, personally), choosing not to immediately drive the bus off a cliff is the unambiguously correct and necessary choice any time your choices are reduced to those two options.
The choice is pretty clear for asylum seekers.
Except we never get to the part where we're not driving off a cliff. Every election is trying to keep from going off the cliff, and we never get to go anywhere for any food.
That has much more to do with other actions taken (or not taken) between the elections, rather than a need to cliffyeet ourselves.
That's why it's 'harm reduction'. It's not meant to solve our problems in and of itself. It's meant to minimize the pressure we're under while we try to solve them.
I’ve been doing those actions, too. Since well before I could vote.
Those don’t seem to work either.
Again, that's part and parcel of being one person out of literal millions. No matter how hard you, personally, fight, the chances of you, personally, making the difference is... well, one out of millions. And if those millions are working against you, well...
The cruelty of it is only by rallying millions of people, almost all of whom will be aware of how infinitesimal their contribution is, to give it their all is popular change effected. It's how wars are won, how governments are overthrown. And until that last, victorious moment, it's fucking soul-crushing.
What a stupid species.
I’ll take my pillar in the desert, please.