• yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    Driving a car isn’t optional for most people. Similarly, not eating meat can be onerous in our culture. Both driving and meat eating fall under the so-called Plight of the Commons.

    By contrast, taking a cruise ship is a gratuitous act of evil.

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      2 days ago

      I’m sorry what - after that poetry about orcs, you seriously still eat meat and justify it with this self-serving excuse? No it is not onerous. You don’t even have to tell anyone. It’s easy and cheaper.

      We can go back and forth on purity tests that conveniently favor ourselves, cheering at the deaths of commons… or you can direct your anger at systemic change that can actually help. Inb4 worthless bitter nihilism.