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I'll make a political analogy to this. The country is divided between the Party of Reasonableness and the Global Thermonuclear War Party. The Party of Reasonableness has won every election for the past 70 years, because a majority of the citizens don't want to die in a nuclear war. Nonetheless, 40-45% of the country regularly votes for the Global Thermonuclear War Party, whose platform consists entirely of nuking the entire world.

After 70 years in power, the Party of Reasonableness has gotten rather corrupt and the citizens are unhappy with its economic policy. The percentage of people voting for the Global Thermonuclear War Party gradually increases across elections, but stays below 47% or so, until finally one year it is discovered that the nominee from the Party of Reasonableness deleted 33 million emails from her private server. The public outrage at the deletion of so many emails finally catapults the Global Thermonuclear War Party over the top, and they win that year's election with 50.05% of the votes.

Once in power, the Global Thermonuclear War Party immediately starts a nuclear war causing the extinction of humanity from the planet. Is there nothing to regret here?

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