One of the big issues in these discussions that people tend to not think about it is that yeah, if it was just you, the world would be perfectly fine. If it was just you touching rocks, if it was just you tossing trash on the ground, if it was just you doing whatever the individual impact would be negligible. But it's not just you, it's hundreds of thousands, millions, billions of people all doing the same thing over and over with that same line of logic. Even many of the major polluting companies would be fine if it was just that one company.
Sure it feels hopeless to give up something to do better when you know that your action on its own isn't nearly enough to fix enough but that shouldn't be an excuse to just ignore the harm that comes from those actions either. Weigh the options, are you really missing out that much not stacking a bunch of rocks for a boring post on social media that gets five likes? Are you losing out that much because you decided to stick on the trail instead of disturbing all the bugs and microorganisms in the river?
Everything we do will have consequences to the world sure and we're not asking people to never ever have fun, just keep a little bit more in line and let the few remannts of nature we have left be at peace. It was hard enough on those ecosystems to put the trails and camping sites and other human accomodations in the first place, why disturb them more for such little gain?
Exactly, and what is a collection if not just a whole bunch of individuals within a group? What impacts the collection will impact the individual inside and the individual inside and their decisions will have an impact (even if minor) on what the collection is.
For example a fairly implemented ban on smoking in public buildings means that no individual is allowed to smoke in public buildings, even if it wouldn't be nearly as bad if it was just them just this one time.
One of the big issues in these discussions that people tend to not think about it is that yeah, if it was just you, the world would be perfectly fine. If it was just you touching rocks, if it was just you tossing trash on the ground, if it was just you doing whatever the individual impact would be negligible. But it's not just you, it's hundreds of thousands, millions, billions of people all doing the same thing over and over with that same line of logic. Even many of the major polluting companies would be fine if it was just that one company.
Sure it feels hopeless to give up something to do better when you know that your action on its own isn't nearly enough to fix enough but that shouldn't be an excuse to just ignore the harm that comes from those actions either. Weigh the options, are you really missing out that much not stacking a bunch of rocks for a boring post on social media that gets five likes? Are you losing out that much because you decided to stick on the trail instead of disturbing all the bugs and microorganisms in the river?
Everything we do will have consequences to the world sure and we're not asking people to never ever have fun, just keep a little bit more in line and let the few remannts of nature we have left be at peace. It was hard enough on those ecosystems to put the trails and camping sites and other human accomodations in the first place, why disturb them more for such little gain?
Leftists thinking mighty individualist for an ideology thats supposed to be inherently collectivist, lol
Exactly, and what is a collection if not just a whole bunch of individuals within a group? What impacts the collection will impact the individual inside and the individual inside and their decisions will have an impact (even if minor) on what the collection is.
For example a fairly implemented ban on smoking in public buildings means that no individual is allowed to smoke in public buildings, even if it wouldn't be nearly as bad if it was just them just this one time.
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