This is a reply in another thread by another anon and my reply to it.
the original comment:
EmotionallyDrained 1 point 1 hour ago +1 / -0 If your country is at war, and there is no way you can stop all suffering and death but you can save most by sacrificing a "few," would you do it? Could you make that hard choice? Pray for him and all of us.
my reply:
NewbieQbie 1 point moments ago +1 / -0 he basically said as much. He was talking about which state to allow to house the Space Force headquarters and said it was tough choosing, but it had to be done. Then told the crowd something along the lines of "Do you think you could make the decision if you had to? Do you know how tough these things are?" If choosing where to put a military headquarters is tough, IMAGINE choosing to endorse or not endorse a vaccine you needed to facilitate to prevent permanent lockdown of society???
No. That is different. If you are the kind of person that follows others, telling someone it is their choice is meaningless. They will follow whatever you tell them. The problem is that many of those noncritical thinkers are actually very good people. So Trump effectively pushed a lot of good, moral people to their death simply because they were not awake. You can claim (callously in my opinion) that these people deserve to die, but you can't make the argument that Trump bears no responsibility for it when everyone under the sun, including Trump, knew that this is exactly what would happen.