That's exactly why I can't take authoritarians seriously. The way they talk about violent revolution makes it clear they don't care about the people that get hurt, because it has never been and will never be themselves in danger.
It reminds me a lot of how conservatives will claim nazi or racist or fascist has lost all meaning
The point of Pascal's wager is how non provable beliefs can't be logically reasoned one way or the other. Like how there is no objective original and duplicate ship of theseus.
People arguing over the danger of the transporter is a lot like trying to reason any unsolvable paradox, and especially like arguing over having faith. Better than roko's basilisk, though, that's pascal's wager for scuzzy tools.
Lol I don't think they mean to be that particular with their place names for a joke phrase
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