• Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    “It doesn’t matter whether I do or do not beat my wife and children. It would still happen anyway.”

    Society is all the individuals within it. Its output is the sum of all those individuals. If Republican business owners stuck to their principles and did not hire undocumented workers to make more profits, the amount of undocumented workers they are unhappy about would go down.

    They are, quite literally, profiting from something they like, but then saying they don’t like it and it’s a reason to vote for shitty politicians. It’s not just hypocrisy, it’s wilfully making the world worse for other humans. Which is quite popular.

    • Steve@communick.news
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      3 months ago

      “If everyone just does the right, thing instead of what’s best for them …”

      That never happens. That’s not how people work.

      Systemic problems need systemic solutions. Your example isn’t a systemic problem, it’s an individual one. As such it can be solved by an individual.