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Your post was a good, especially as a starting point of a discussion, until you started your last two sentences ('But those ...'). Those sentences are complete
by beeforpork 5y ago
Your post was a good, especially as a starting point of a discussion, until you started your last two sentences ('But those ...'). Those sentences are completely counter-productive, universal, generalising accusations towards people who might actually want to discuss seriously about this topic, because they honestly share the same goal of preventing a catastrophy. It is sad that discussions are often made impossible by such unnecesary prejudice about people who you may actually want to discuss with.
- trentnix 5y agoIf you can’t identify the interlocutors who aren’t sincere, the necessary discussion won’t go anywhere useful. And many of those discussing climate change are absolutely insincere. You see it here in these comments with “it’s the West’s fault” and “capitalism is the problem”.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoA: it is an irrefutable fact that climate change is the West's fault, Climate change is caused by CO2, EU + US produced 70% of all CO2 B: Whether the people who blame capitalism are correct is irrelevant, they are sincere is that they have beef with capitalism. Accusing sincere people of insenserity is precisely the kind of thing that makes discussion unproductive C: There is a wide range of people who insincerely advocate climate inaction, because it furhters their financial interests
- revolvingocelot 5y agoIt's an impressive rhetorical technique, preemptively dismissing everyone who disagrees with you as "absolutely insincere", but it seems a little obvious, especially elucidating it as clearly as you have here. You don't want to tip your hand too early... That said, it's so stupid it might just work!