2 ms·
If you pee in the river once a month, but the municipality of the town upstream decides to release its entire sewage into it, does the river calculate the impac
by belltaco 7y ago
If you pee in the river once a month, but the municipality of the town upstream decides to release its entire sewage into it, does the river calculate the impact per-capita?
- adrianN 7y agoIf you kill somebody once a month but a government near you decides to start a war, does it make your murder ethically acceptable?
- belltaco 7y agoTerrible analogy. Someone making a campfire, like humans did for thousands of years, isn't doing something remotely as bad as committing murder. The analogy only works if what a single person is doing is inconsequential if they are the only ones doing it. Murder certainly does not belong there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons Murder isn't a good example of it.
- adrianN 7y agoI hardly think that the GHG emissions of countries other than China are inconsequential.