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  • edge [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Moving a rock has an extremely minimal, potentially negative effect on the environment in like a 5 foot radius around it, so it's immoral to so much as touch a rock. And this is definitely how normal humans operate.

    • Zodiark [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      This is a facetious statement. The geologist said in that thread that moving sediments or rocks have a cumulative, compounding effect that impose upon the environment negative externalities and affects upon the ecosystem around it. And people were arguing that they were justified to do this for aesthetic purposes, which are fleeting and mundane at that.

      Perhaps a fitting analogy would be: Drinking soda and eating candy on one day alone isn't terrible, but if you compound it as a daily staple of your diet you will compromise your body's ability to process sugar. If thousands, millions of people do the same you will have an epidemic of obesity and diabetes, straining the health of that society and quality of life of the public health.

      • edge [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Because it's bullshit. Moving a rock doesn't devastate the local ecosystem.