Sorry, are we disagreeing on some point? Maybe I missed something. We both agree that the western society consumes too much, and in the part of my comment whic

Sorry, are we disagreeing on some point? Maybe I missed something. We both agree that the western society consumes too much, and in the part of my comment which you extracted I included myself explicitly in the group of people who consume too much. I am having sympathy for people who consume too much and don't change their ways. I'm the first person I have sympathy for in this as I'm preoccupied by other stuff than my lifestyle choices at the moment. I did not denigrate the people who consume too much, merely the habit of consumption. The actor and the behavior are two different things. Merely behaving in a bad way does not make the person bad. It merely means they have something to improve in their personal conduct. Calling stuff people consume "crap" is not the same thing as insulting people. Although, western commercialism has done a great effort in trying to tie persons self worth to their consumer habits. This psychological link is also crap.