> Oh wait, they're mostly needless since humans lived without plastic for hundreds of thousands of years. This kind of moral excoriation is not persuasive. You

> Oh wait, they're mostly needless since humans lived without plastic for hundreds of thousands of years. This kind of moral excoriation is not persuasive. You're claiming the moral authority to dictate which things people need, or whether an activity is permissible. You don't have that authority, none of us do, and that you feel passionately about the subject doesn't grant it to you. Many people, especially artists, engineers, etc. work quite hard at producing such "trinkets" or their livelihoods depend on them. You're not going to persuade them by denigrating them or their work as mere consumerism.