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Propaganda of the Deed (lemmy.world)

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Propaganda by the Deed

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd say it's still murder, but passive rather than active.

[–] Snapz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't even say passive, it's plausible deniability at best - meaning a constructed, technical wall to point to and say, "whaa happened?" when shit goes bad.

Brian's job was simple, walk into a room each day and be asked a single question, "how many hammers do we make today?" His answer, without exception, was, "as many hammers as we're legally allowed to make". Then Brian goes home, well, second home as he was estranged from his wife and family and he took that drive home while drunk. He then likely ate a big ol' steak, had a massage and sex with an escort and continued drinking until he passed out, sleeping very well after a harmless day of deciding targets for hammer production.

In the meantime, those hammers were used predominately to bludgeon sick people to death while already actively suffering through the most painful, lowest moments of their lives - and the victim's families have to watch it slowly happen with nothing meaningful they can do.

But Brian was just choosing the number of hammers to make each day, right?