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I actually felt anxiety about it raining just knowing where it was all headed. You people scare me. Honestly. I'm not joking. What I can feel anxiety for: thin

by narag 10y ago

I actually felt anxiety about it raining just knowing where it was all headed. You people scare me. Honestly. I'm not joking. What I can feel anxiety for: thinking that people can start a fight for a butt on the floor. Making people feel guilt for using the wrong trash container, or leaving the tap open for too long. Life's too short for that crap, IMHO. It makes me think of Demolition Man. I believed it was over the top comedy when it was released. Now I'm not taking it as a joke anymore. Edit: I should not need to say this. But... I don't smoke. Also I don't approve people littering if they can avoid it.

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elahd 10y ago
Honestly, you should feel guilty. Recycling is easy; so is looking for a garbage can. Our resources are limited. No use squandering them because "yolo".
- narag 10y ago
  "You"? It seems you didn't understand my previous comment. Fine. I really don't know how to explain the concept much better. It's something about not putting absolute ideas over people, including oneself. That's not to say despising common interest, but just having a little common sense. Let me share an old story of my hometown. Public water supply pipes are a disaster in the area. I saw an official report that showed that the waste was between 20% and 40%. So, even if this is the spanish province with the most rain, we suffered from restrictions most summers. No current water from 10 PM to 10 AM. Now two infuriating (for me, at least) cases: one nearby village spent a hefty sum repairing the pipes, so no more leaks, and a family here that installed a reservoir in the roof to have water after 10 PM. Please notice that cutting the supply is not intended to make people consume less (they do more since water is kept in buckets for the night), but to reduce the leaks to half (half time pressurized pipes). The family was fined because they were not "solidary" with their neighbours. The rest of councils of the area made a big noise and demanded the village that had invested in infrastructure, and thus attacked the root problem, to put restrictions in place. You might think that these stories have nothing to do with the current conversation. Maybe I should have written about the fines for not recycling while there were not recycling facilities, so everything ended in the same dumpster, or the golf fields that sucked tons of water, I don't know. My point is what I wrote above: beware of this kind of absolute idea when they stomp over people or common sense. Do what you reasonably can to make the world a little better, but don't put the responsability to save the world on your shoulders, that's not healthy.
bamboozled 10y ago
Well I'm also affraid by self-interested people who think that life is short, therefore, behaving selfishly is fine. Fortunately we share this world with other living organisms and juvenille humans, who deserve a healthy eco-system. Also, the natural environment is not the wrong trash can, it's simply not a trash can at all. I've often seen people deliberately ignore signs warning people not to use a storm water drain as a trash can. What hope do we have when people do things like that? Also, I have no idea how we got into water restrictions, but why not?

by narag 10y ago

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elahd 10y ago

Honestly, you should feel guilty. Recycling is easy; so is looking for a garbage can. Our resources are limited. No use squandering them because "yolo".

narag 10y ago
"You"? It seems you didn't understand my previous comment. Fine. I really don't know how to explain the concept much better. It's something about not putting absolute ideas over people, including oneself. That's not to say despising common interest, but just having a little common sense. Let me share an old story of my hometown. Public water supply pipes are a disaster in the area. I saw an official report that showed that the waste was between 20% and 40%. So, even if this is the spanish province with the most rain, we suffered from restrictions most summers. No current water from 10 PM to 10 AM. Now two infuriating (for me, at least) cases: one nearby village spent a hefty sum repairing the pipes, so no more leaks, and a family here that installed a reservoir in the roof to have water after 10 PM. Please notice that cutting the supply is not intended to make people consume less (they do more since water is kept in buckets for the night), but to reduce the leaks to half (half time pressurized pipes). The family was fined because they were not "solidary" with their neighbours. The rest of councils of the area made a big noise and demanded the village that had invested in infrastructure, and thus attacked the root problem, to put restrictions in place. You might think that these stories have nothing to do with the current conversation. Maybe I should have written about the fines for not recycling while there were not recycling facilities, so everything ended in the same dumpster, or the golf fields that sucked tons of water, I don't know. My point is what I wrote above: beware of this kind of absolute idea when they stomp over people or common sense. Do what you reasonably can to make the world a little better, but don't put the responsability to save the world on your shoulders, that's not healthy.

bamboozled 10y ago

Well I'm also affraid by self-interested people who think that life is short, therefore, behaving selfishly is fine. Fortunately we share this world with other living organisms and juvenille humans, who deserve a healthy eco-system. Also, the natural environment is not the wrong trash can, it's simply not a trash can at all. I've often seen people deliberately ignore signs warning people not to use a storm water drain as a trash can. What hope do we have when people do things like that? Also, I have no idea how we got into water restrictions, but why not?