Comment by TSiege
16 hours ago
A train is barreling down the tracks while you stand at a switch. Do nothing and the train will destroy dozens of bicycles. If you pull the switch the train will kill one woman you've never met.
You sure you still wanna pull that switch?
The false dichotomy you present does not become any more credible in the form of a thought experiment.
This is literally the situation the comment I'm responding to set up
How many people's lives in third world countries were ruined making that train?
And I know, I know, the downvoterinos!
I don't actually care about this issue at all. The observation is: that moral grandstanding of "woman's lives to stolen bicycles" is somewhat amusing when the hardware is built on the backs of underpaid people in the global south. All so people can have little toys of convenience.
It's likely that Apple doesn't care about woman's lives either, for what it's worth. Just the negative PR associated with the problem at hand.