Gee, it sure sounds like an appeal that the abductor would use to try to leverage a hostage situation. “You wouldn’t want them to get hurt… would you?”
Beyond the absurdity of using a hospital patient as a metaphor, it also serves to ridicule it’s own position: A hospital patient is dying, you the doctor offer to save the patient by giving them medicine. This person ridicules you for even trying and casts you as a murderer if you fail.
This argument is also projecting. It casts the socialist as not knowing what they are doing by messing with “levers that no one could possibly understand”. Yet the post implies that those unknowable levers are a perfect analogue to a patient who is hooked up to what is clearly an understandable apparatus of life support. It sounds like the argument doesn’t not in fact know what those nebulous levers are, yet describes the socialist position as clueless to the “complexity of society”.
Better not try to fix the dying machine. It’s death is certain, but trying to save it is uncertain, and that’s too scary.
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I don’t think I have seen all three at once before.
Gee, it sure sounds like an appeal that the abductor would use to try to leverage a hostage situation. “You wouldn’t want them to get hurt… would you?”
Beyond the absurdity of using a hospital patient as a metaphor, it also serves to ridicule it’s own position: A hospital patient is dying, you the doctor offer to save the patient by giving them medicine. This person ridicules you for even trying and casts you as a murderer if you fail.
This argument is also projecting. It casts the socialist as not knowing what they are doing by messing with “levers that no one could possibly understand”. Yet the post implies that those unknowable levers are a perfect analogue to a patient who is hooked up to what is clearly an understandable apparatus of life support. It sounds like the argument doesn’t not in fact know what those nebulous levers are, yet describes the socialist position as clueless to the “complexity of society”.
Better not try to fix the dying machine. It’s death is certain, but trying to save it is uncertain, and that’s too scary.