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It's not even an "if", this is literally happening. The thing is that no one knew at the time. At least the way I believe this works is a combination of greed+ignorance that leads to a world where we make something that poisons us very fast with little research, we make it an essential part of our lives quickly, and then when it turns out It was poison It's already too late or really hard to phase it out without doing major damage to the ecenomy and cash flow of the entire planet.
And if that's really how that goes, then in my opinion It's your moral duty to try and help and enlighten people when possible, but you shouldnt be held accountable if you don't, cause It's difficult to change someones mind by good intention, and the more you make yourself sound like a madman the less likely you to be succesful too. So It's a strategy game of game theory and subtle manipulation to help people. I can't stop believing in humans even if they throw themselves willingly of a cliff again and again -
I would absolutely attempt to help those I think could understand and change.
If someone is legitimately awful, immoral, evil, etc. though, I would do nothing at all to aid nor save them — and might even try keeping the beneficial information from them. Kinda evil I guess, but the world would be a better place without them. Even if they personally harmed me/mine, I could not encourage their self-destructive behavior; it’s way too far against my morals. But letting them harm themselves? I’m okay with that. It’s a lesson for them to learn, even if it might be their last. Fking arrogant immoral assholes don’t deserve the slightest effort towards saving them.
If everyone was slowly being poisoned by something and will all die of cancer and general disintegration but they don't know it and think everything is fine
similarly you noticing this, everyone sanctions and ostracizes and makes fun of you. or worse, tries to take advantage of you even though you're seriously disabled
upon figuring out how to cure yourself, would you go back to those who dismissed you, ridiculed, dehumanized, and tried to steal from you? Would you want to help them? Or would you hope they dig their heels in even deeper and die faster, for all our sakes?
especially if they're authority figures who discriminated against you. They killed people. They keep killing people. Is it more moral to encourage them down the path of self-destruction; accelerationism? The numbers and humanity's quality of life will be overall better if you just play into their biases and encourage them to keep doing the self-destructive things they keep authoritatively insisting others do to themselves...
Or should one have hope, some kind of faith in humanity, and try to save everyone no matter how they showed their characters to be? In my experience I've never seen someone's character change... so by saving a bad person, this implies you'd make the world worse...
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