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It feels like solving traffic mortality by pasting a "drive carefully"-sticker inside the windshield Wouldn't a better analogy here be to "solve traffic mortal
by xtrapolate 9y ago
It feels like solving traffic mortality by pasting a "drive carefully"-sticker inside the windshield
Wouldn't a better analogy here be to "solve traffic mortality" by considerably reducing your exposure to dangerous situations (as in, driving less)?
There's a demand for meat, hence an industry working to supply (and profit-off-of) it. Encouraging people to eat less meat is making a difference.
- enord 9y agoI dispute that encouraging people to eat less meat will make enough of a difference in this case to, well, make a difference. It's not wrong, it's just too much self-congratulatory blame-shifting with a moral message as the end itself. These kinds of problems need results, not feel-good activist sentiment woo. People are dying.
- xtrapolate 9y agoAre you suggesting that the change is too slow/not drastic enough? Or perhaps that a change isn't taking place at-all in the first place, that it's all just hot air?
- enord 9y agoIndeed, we have to be confident that the mechanism of intervention will have the desired effect, and in time before we run out of antibiotic alternatives. I say that anything less than that is worse than useless, because we're spending wasted effort (mindshare, attention) when time is, to the best of our knowledge, running out. Now i don't know that personal activism and moral campaigning will be insufficient in this case, it just smells that way to me. It also has a certain fragrance of moral superiority and virtue signalling about it, which i guess triggers me, or something.