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Choosing not to profit off of fossil fuels may be a 'poor decision' from a financial perspective, but it's a good moral decision. The fact that our financial sy
by dunstad 7y ago
Choosing not to profit off of fossil fuels may be a 'poor decision' from a financial perspective, but it's a good moral decision. The fact that our financial systems incentivize poor moral behavior makes them poor systems.
- Armisael16 7y agoHonest question: why is it inherently bad morals to profit from fossil fuels? If you act the same as you would if you weren’t profiting I don’t seem how it changes anything at all. It seems strange to me to cast everyone with an index fund as morally corrupt.
- dunstad 7y agoFossil fuels are a large contributor to climate change, which is forecast to, and in fact is already causing, great harm. In order to profit from them you have to have some form of investment in them, which means in a small way you have contributed to the cause of promoting fossil fuel usage. Exactly how morally corrupt people with an index fund are is a question I'll leave for philosophers.