# Anti-Austerity Party Wins in Greece: Will Greece Leave the Euro?

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**Created:** [January 26, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-austerity-party-wins-in-greece-will-greece-leave-the-euro/710909 "2015-01-26T05:14:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-austerity-party-wins-in-greece-will-greece-leave-the-euro/710909/12 "2015-01-26T07:34:04Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> Austerity will _destroy_ them, as it is in the process of doing. And the new people keeping to it especially after they got elected saying they won’t would likely result in the population giving up on democratic solutions and kicking off a revolution. That’s what a starving, hopeless population _does._
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> And austerity makes it impossible for them to budget in a “rational manner”.

If you feel like you know what’s what, then I encourage you to make an economic argument. Going all Jack Bauer, “Millions of people are GOING TO DIE!”, isn’t an economic argument.

Yes, maybe a large number people will die of starvation. But let’s take the example of inoculation. When you give someone a shot to immunize them against a virus, some percentage of the people who get the shot actually contract the virus from the shot (since inoculation is a weak version of the virus), and some of those people die. By inoculating, you are actively and knowingly killing people. But you still do it because you know that the alternative would be that an even greater number of people die.

So I could explain to you what Greece could and should do, but instead I’m going to tell you that you’re championing the side of greater destruction, death, and hardship. Don’t do that.

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