2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I have examined where my loyalties lie, you judge, I'll explain my position. [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)that have the potential not only to save lives, but actually improve great many of them if we choose wisely.
OR, if unwisely -
Another choice, full of compromises that begin as half measures to start with, that will likely include bipartisanship "compromises" that will likely "reform" more of our safety net.
Such a choice will very likely add to the loss of life, and I haven't even gotten to the really big stakes involved in such decisions having nothing to do with games.
One of these involves more war more often (much more loss of life) and an even bigger consequence to a poor choice involving an environment that is falling into a nearly inescapable inevitability of an extinction level event, half measures and compromises with fossil fuel will not save us from extinction, or the loss of all human life.
This is most assuredly no game.