My feelings move towards the ultimate responsibility is on society (all of us) for not creating a better system. Though there are always going to be people that just don’t give a fuck.
My feelings move towards the ultimate responsibility is on society (all of us) for not creating a better system. Though there are always going to be people that just don’t give a fuck.
And I would say that you rather have still made a choice.
It might be a constrained choice, but it is still a choice.
At the extreme, to illustrate my point: if you were to put a gun to my head and tell me that if I didn’t give you my money, you were going to shoot me, I still have a choice. Granted that it’s a severely limited choice between two bad options that exists solely because you’ve arranged matters to impose it on me, but it is still a choice.
And in philosophy, that kind of precision matters.
You need to check your privilege (the fact that you chose to reply to an example about taking food, with an example of you being given a gun and being told to shoot someone says it all, you’re not even looking to challenge your own bias and admit that you probably have no idea what starving, or being homeless, or otherwise persecuted by “the law” is like)