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Why should I have tolerance for someone who thinks their need to keep an obsolete job is more important than my need to not die?
by mikeash 8y ago
Why should I have tolerance for someone who thinks their need to keep an obsolete job is more important than my need to not die?
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoThose who lose those obsolete jobs have a higher probability of dying than you do. The stress literally kills people, even if they don't commit suicide or wind up addicted to opioids.
- mikeash 8y agoSure, but there are way more of us so the harm is far larger. Coal currently kills about a million people a year worldwide, and thousands in the US. And I don’t even want them to become destitute! I just want to help them move on to a better job. Meanwhile they apparently don’t care that they’re dumping poison into the air. Why should I tolerate that?
- AnimalMuppet 8y ago> Meanwhile they apparently don’t care that they’re dumping poison into the air. And what would you regard as signs of "caring"? If they quit their job? In a region with no other jobs, you want them to voluntarily quit to show that they "care"? If not that, what? The rest of your post is fine. This one sentence, though, is pretty judgmental.
- mikeash 8y agoA sign of caring would be not supporting politicians who want to subsidize their industry so that it can continue to poison the world long after it stops being economically viable.