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.
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.
That’s a privileged take. The right wing has made voting a lot fucking harder for certain groups in certain places.