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The fetishism of biological locomotion is just a form of Luddism. Our backs are poorly designed. The amount of human suffering caused by damage to our backs is
by donatj 6y ago
The fetishism of biological locomotion is just a form of Luddism. Our backs are poorly designed. The amount of human suffering caused by damage to our backs is immeasurable. Promoting more of that is just cruel.
Pushing the environment to the detriment of human happiness and progress should never be a goal. There is a balance we can seek to not destroy our cradle while not hobbling ourselves.
The idea that we must abandon progress when we have basically endless untapped power is just a death cult.
- PeterisP 6y agoIf we're talking about backs, then (given the very limited amount of literal back-breaking work carrying loads that are far too heavy for us, at least in the developed world) the main damage to our backs is caused by excessive sitting (for which our backs are poorly designed) - so if you're really going to use "damage to our backs" as an argumant with respect to cars vs "biological locomotion", this is an argument for more "biological locomotion" not less.