Comment by mayama
4 hours ago
Most of humanity survived on agriculture and sometimes hunting-gathering for last 10k years. People that survived on hunting whales is minuscule. Comparing those two is nonsensical.
4 hours ago
Most of humanity survived on agriculture and sometimes hunting-gathering for last 10k years. People that survived on hunting whales is minuscule. Comparing those two is nonsensical.
But you seem to be missing the point, parent is talking about the industrial scale of means to create a lot more destruction to the environment which the OP point hinges on. Parent does not say humanity survived on hunting whales, quite the opposite, when they had the means people nearly drove whales to extinction.
Forest for the trees?
I doubt that anyone reading this can’t get the point of the analogy.
The value is in showing where the analogy fails, and either disproves the point, or deepens the point.