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He changed from Republican to Democrat one day before being arrested but it now means dems pick up a seat in the WV state legislature (lemmy.ml)

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https://bsky.app/profile/fawfulfan.bsky.social/post/3lfb7hsacrs22

Edit: also the direct link to the article https://www.rawstory.com/west-virginia/

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Mankind is barely able to look beyond the benefit of their direct offspring, much less future generations, and often, not even that far. It will always be a race to the bottom as long as being immoral yields immediate benefits at the cost of long-term good.

There are moral, long-term thinking people, but these often lose battles to immoral short-term thinkers since they tend to not be willing to sacrifice "the moral high ground," lest they become no better than their opponents.

[–] Feathercrown 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So... if I start a nuclear war... and wipe out the entire human race... I'm the most moral person because I've reduced the number of killers in the world to zero, forever?

[–] mrslt 7 points 2 weeks ago

I'm no ethicist, but I can't argue with the logic.