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The idea that people redecorating their homes using money they have personally worked themselves to earn is a "detriment to others" is outlandish hogwash and pr
by bugsy 16y ago
The idea that people redecorating their homes using money they have personally worked themselves to earn is a "detriment to others" is outlandish hogwash and propaganda. The term "detriment" implies they are harming people and should be stopped, while ignoring the harm caused by needless wars and vast theft of resources from the working man and redistribution to useless bureaucratic eaters, financiers and speculators.
- cma 16y agoIn the case of granite countertops, I do think it should be stopped. And not by the government. Stopped through cultural change--hopefully brought about by people pointing out that the practice is wasteful. It should lower status rather than raise it. I'm not ignoring other harms, you are inventing that out of the air.
- bugsy 16y agoYou think it is wasteful. Do you drive to work, or take a vehicle powered by nonrenewable resources? Live or work in a residence or facility that has heating and air conditioning? Eat meat you have not raised yourself? Many would say all these things are wasteful and harmful as well and they would have a better argument than one against owning polished stones. Why should you have moral authority to claim that things other people do that you are not interested in are harmful or wasteful, while you engage in harmful and wasteful practices that others object to but you are unwilling to change? Are you better than they are? Who decides what things will be allowed and which forbidden? You? Why? And who is your master, or do you fancy yourself servant to none, but master to all?