Comment by colechristensen
18 hours ago
What is unjust about cutting down an orchard producing a product people aren't buying?
This isn't pristine old growth forest, it has no great ecology.
18 hours ago
What is unjust about cutting down an orchard producing a product people aren't buying?
This isn't pristine old growth forest, it has no great ecology.
My opinion is that it's mainly unjust to have invested so much in growing it to destroy it. Mistakes happen and this is the right decision for now given the situation but it is wasteful.
Well then the solution is simple: people need to stop making mistakes. We should all have perfect foresight, and never guess wrong about counterparty risk or changes in consumer tastes.
Agreed. And the single best way to avoid making mistakes is to stay at home and complain on the internet about everyone else's.
I see people finding too often that change is injustice, and this is strange.
I think I just have a strange personal definition of injustice - but the effort put into growing this orchard to destroy is could have gone to better projects. The fact that so much of an investment is being wasted is, to me, a misallocation of resources that were unjustly allotted to this failed venture. A more just outcome would have been these resources and efforts going to projects that actually yielded benefits to people.
I've noted this elsewhere but "injustice" was semantically baked into the OP so I retained that wording but my brain really stretched the term here to align better with "wasteful". I can certainly argue to their equivalence but I think if multiple people have gotten hung up on the term I've committed a semantic misstep.
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