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> Also, with the wars, global warming and everything else that's happening right now, My thinking is there will always be something. Our parents could have sai
by _fat_santa 4y ago
> Also, with the wars, global warming and everything else that's happening right now,
My thinking is there will always be something. Our parents could have said the same thing about Vietnam and the Cold War. My litmus test is: "is this issue affecting you". Global warming and wars may make you anxious when reading the news, but does it _actually_ affect your life.
- arolihas 4y agoYou can't just dismiss global events with long term consequences because they don't appear to have an immediate and direct impact on your life.
- type-r 4y agoDisagree. I've found living this way is actually quite nice. What am I going to do about these "global events" anyway? I can't impact them so I don't see why I should worry about them. I'll just deal with their downstream impact and let others worry about the events themselves.
- arolihas 4y agoYou can do that but it's incredibly lazy and selfish. But hey if you don't care and you think you are that useless to the world, that's fine, there's no convincing you otherwise.
- guerrilla 4y agoGlobal warming will eventually effect everyone, which is the point. It's already effecting many people and people they know... That's a weird one to pick considering how much it already effect people and will definitely effect people in the future. The war in Ukraine is also massively effecting us when it comes to energy prices and a large component of the remainder of the inflation (partly hard scarcity in many commodities and partly due to uncertainty.) This is the weirdest comment, like you're totally out of touch with what's going on somehow...
- arolihas 4y agoApparently we are supposed to live our lives as if we have the awareness of a small infant.