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The article states: "The calamity of the stone stack, in our anxious times, seems admittedly minor. But it’s a prominent example of how social media can genera
by 2bitencryption 8y ago
The article states:
"The calamity of the stone stack, in our anxious times, seems admittedly minor. But it’s a prominent example of how social media can generate scale, transforming an activity that would be mostly harmless in isolation into something with planetary impact."
Does this mean, if I do not see any other rock stacks in a national park, I can create my own, since there is no real harm unless it is done at scale? Or would that also be wrong, since even if I am doing only one, it might contribute to the next visitor also making one, and so on?
- jachee 8y agoThe latter, according to park personnel. Just because you don't see one doesn't mean someone hasn't already dismantled them all. If you compulsively must make stack, then tear back it down and put the stones back before you leave.
- empath75 8y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox Example of the sorites paradox. One isn’t a problem. Two isn’t a problem. You can keep saying oh one more won’t be a problem until at some point it is.