Comment by marcosdumay
1 year ago
If it makes people happy, it must be destroying the planet!
I have no idea what kind of destruction it does. But it's an alternative for making people miserable to the point where it's an stochastic genocide, so it must be bad somehow.
Yeah, I see lots of people saying exactly the same, completely seriously, both online and live. What goes on those people head is beyond my capacity to comprehend.
I think there's a lot of institutional skepticism in general. Like the game is rigged, and alternative things are secretly nasty and fueled by ulterior motives. This is not surprising, perhaps it's even warranted.
What's really irks me is the other side of the coin, the things that get a "free pass," like (for instance) fossil fuels and their entire production chain. I see a lot of squabbles about the negatives of various energy tech, and somehow the order of magnitude difference between that and fossil fuels is brushed over, not to speak of oil companies' clear manipulation of public opinion.
> I have no idea what kind of destruction it does
This is really all you had to say, but since it doesn’t really add to the discussion, my recommendation would have been to avoid replying at all, especially considering the rest of the content…
> genocide
IME, the people that throw out buzzwords like this about every issue they come across are some of the most likely to perpetrate it, given the opportunity.
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