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That ("anything other than spiteful") sounds like dehumanizing an opponent. Are you sure that you yourself are willing to consider trade-offs and account for ex
by burfog 7y ago
That ("anything other than spiteful") sounds like dehumanizing an opponent. Are you sure that you yourself are willing to consider trade-offs and account for externalities? Consideration would include the possibility of "no regulation". It would include a recognition that regulation often just pushes the jobs out to China, with the pollution blowing back across the ocean and an added helping of pollution from container ships burning bunker fuel.
- Frondo 7y agoYes, I am willing to consider trade-offs and account for externalities. "Anything other than spiteful" isn't dehumanizing. Humans can be spiteful, and can operate in a way that seems entirely driven by spite and still be people; some of us even had parents that seemed this way (if you didn't, ask among your pals).
- drak0n1c 7y agoIt is possible to view the industrial work that environmentalists protest as positive expressions of humanity doing what it does best. Just as a beaver builds dams, an act of eudaemonia. Being in favor of promoting and protecting such industry, especially if it materially benefits hundreds of thousands of people in a region, is not necessarily motivated solely by a desire to spite opponents.