Allow me to make myself abundantly clear. I do not want a genocide of the Jews. Please read this back to yourself before going any further and make sure you understand what I mean for goodness sake.
And at the same time I don't want a genocide of unborn children either. Are you getting the picture yet?
My intent here is to ask, why do we allow genocide at ultra high scale. But object furiously at very ly low scale?
I'm not saying that either Israel or abortion is right or wrong.I am trying to get a conversation going about a society which is incoherent on serious matters by focusing a lot on downstream things and hardly at all on upstream things.
Following is an example of how society encourages us all to treat downstream matters as important. And upstream matters as unimportant.
The reason we do this with society is tribal - it is part of how we control ourselves at scale - through our obedience. Morals are important to us. But clearly not that important. Our obedience is our primary duty. Excess deaths at scale, deliverec by society is relatively unimportant.
The incoherence is as follows:
I am pro choice
I am pro Israel
The alleged genocide in Gaza has killed a few thousand post birth humans once
Abortion kills 73 million fetuses annually
Who is this society which allows it? You and I. Each with a vote. Each making free choices about what we buy and from whom. And who we freely choose to work for.
It is not wealth and power who are to blame*. It is We the people.
*Note: though most of them are no better than we the people. They are still people after all.