• @krashmo@lemmy.world
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    4110 months ago

    Or maybe its just a fundamental fact of life that something has to die in order for you to live and virtue signaling about the degree to which you participate in that death is a pointless exercise.

    • OBJECTION!
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      2310 months ago

      This logic doesn’t make sense in any other context. Like, if I say we should try to reduce CO2 levels in the atmosphere, you could point out that emitting CO2 is a fundamental part of human life, so something something virtue signaling blah blah blah. Just because something is unavoidable to a certain degree doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to minimize it.

    • @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      Or maybe there’s happy middle where everyone can live comfortably while keeping the harm we cause at a minimum.

      Or, at the most selfish, we could make sure we don’t kill ourselves this decade or the next.