Comment on US | ‘No Kings’ demonstrator dies after being shot at Utah protest, police say
brown567@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoTo be fair, they very much did stop someone whose intent seemed to be mass violence. The man who died caught a stray, which is still a tragedy but it could have gone so much worse
jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
That (no doubt unintentionally) casts it as a simple “trolley problem” dichotomy. But it’s not a dichotomy. “Commit fewer homicides than the bad guy might have” is not a win condition, it’s barely more than a push.