There exists a concept called “moral injury”, where you know what the right thing to do is, but are prevented from doing it by circumstances outside your control. Those who suffer moral injury are at high risk of developing stress injuries from them and there is potential for PTSD as a result of a bad enough moral injury, or cumulative moral injuries.
For the sake of their careers, wellbeing and longevity I believe these residents are making the right decisions. I can’t imagine how hard it would be having to turn someone away who required medical attention because the alternative is be criminally charged. You want to talk about moral injuries? There they are.
Good. I know the majority of their poor and minority community population isn’t complicit in the abortion ban but the only way the south will change is when they lose all their young, minority, women, and educated populations.
conservative states lag in education, healthcare, financial stability… and they choose to make it worse constantly. why would any critically-thinking human want to voluntarily move to one of these redneck hellholes?
I had someone on my team accept a relocation package from my company to move from DC to Texas, right around the abortion ban.
She’s a smart woman. And black.
I just couldn’t believe she would voluntarily make that move.
You don’t know people’s stories, maybe she yeeted her uterus awhile back. And has an auntie in Texas.
Still, I wouldn’t do it, and those things are true of me.
Critically-thinking humans move out to better states leaving those who either don’t think critically or who can’t afford to leave. Less critical thinkers = more Republican votes and a more solid grip on power to make things worse.
They’re not out to attract critically-thinking people with these; they’re trying to wear down and drive out their perceived enemies. Any deplorable who thinks “yep, this is what I want” and who decides to move there because of it is just a bonus.
Edit: Because of the way the Senate is structured, regardless of population, each state gets two. So if, hypothetically, there’s a mass exodus from these removed states and population in better states explodes, they’ll still be able to hold the Senate hostage. In the House, the number of reps per state is determined by the census every 10 years giving them a big window to control both chambers of Congress with a minority of Americans on their side (House reps are elected every 2 years).
So, counter-intuitively, the best thing critically-thinking, rational people can do is move to these removed states and vote these ghouls out. Because if enough states devolve to removed status and drive out rational people, they’ll be able to either pass federal legislation making all states removeds or at the very least prevent any federal laws from being enacted that would stop them.
For your quality of life, healthcare, well being, education for your kids, access to healthy food, clean environment etc it is actually more rational to leave these states.
I agree it’s a big ask to stay let alone move there. But long term, the repercussions seem like they would be worse unless the people left there wise up in time.
It’s a commons dilemma, by moving out you’re prioritizing your short term self interest over the long term group interest. If you leave a conservative state for a liberal one for the immediate future your quality of life will be greatly improved, but if enough people do so in the long term everyone’s quality of life will be worse.
Yep. Somewhere between prisoner’s dilemma and trolley problem. Lol
It’s really a variant of the tragedy of the commons, but yes it does have parallels with prisoners dilemma.
