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Terrible analogy. Someone making a campfire, like humans did for thousands of years, isn't doing something remotely as bad as committing murder. The analogy on
by belltaco 7y ago
Terrible 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.