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Cars don’t get a free pass. But literally any time someone says X is a big source of pollution, someone always screams that Y is worse so let’s stop focusing o
by grapeskin 4y ago
Cars don’t get a free pass.
But literally any time someone says X is a big source of pollution, someone always screams that Y is worse so let’s stop focusing on X.
Then when people talk about Y, forget it, here’s Z and it’s the real problem.
They’re all bad. It’s not like there’s one single person on earth who only has time to focus on one single problem. There’s billions.
- Invictus0 4y agoOk, let's plug in X Y and Z. Suppose X is pollution due to letters-in-a-bottle thrown in the sea, Y is pollution due to humans peeing in it, and Z is pollution due to oil spills. Which problem should we focus on?
- ri0t 4y agoAah, i think i see a pattern here, now. Is the answer maybe: All three? Yes, yes, i'd like to solve: A, B and C!
- themitigating 4y agoAll? It's not a single person picking an enviornmental issue to work on, it's all of us. What kind of deflection are trying to pass off?
- grapeskin 4y agoDid you respond to the wrong post?
- koheripbal 4y agoIt's a classic whataboutism distraction attack on the conversation. whataboutisms aren't bad because they're wrong - they are bad because they are a distraction. Either the commenter is trying to turn the conversation to a different topic they prefer to advocate for, satisfy their ego that they know more, or they are simply attempting to disrupt discourse. In reality, the focus should be placed on solutions that have the greatest net positive impact. The size of the problems can guide, but some problems are more fundamentally difficult to solve (which makes them useful whataboutisms). Of course, if we also added the criteria of "We should only debate things on a forum that the members of the forum actually have the ability to effect change on", then 90% of political posts would disappear.
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