There’s a difference between being “committed to not stop the fire” and recognizing my tools at my disposal don’t work for me.
A better version of your example is more like my single fire extinguisher might help me with some of my fire, but it turns out my neighbors lit the whole fucking neighborhood on fire, so rather than fighting my little fire and exhausting myself pointlessly, I chose to walk out and acknowledge I can’t make a difference here.
If anything I should move out of the neighborhood but that’s a luxury I don’t have.
Theres a fire in my kitchen, but the fire extinguisher is only going to stop like 25% of the damage, so I’m committed to not stopping the fire.
To be clear, I also don’t support the fire. But the fire extinguisher is:
So the best thing for me and my kitchen is to do nothing until they make a “fix my kitchen” spray.
When you need the fire department but are only allowed to die trying to fight the out of control blaze or die throwing gas on it.
There’s a difference between being “committed to not stop the fire” and recognizing my tools at my disposal don’t work for me.
A better version of your example is more like my single fire extinguisher might help me with some of my fire, but it turns out my neighbors lit the whole fucking neighborhood on fire, so rather than fighting my little fire and exhausting myself pointlessly, I chose to walk out and acknowledge I can’t make a difference here.
If anything I should move out of the neighborhood but that’s a luxury I don’t have.
This would be an argument for not attending protests or volunteering. But voting takes basically no fucking effort.