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If it leads to more actions taken to tackle climate change, I’ll take it.
by iLoveOncall 4y ago
If it leads to more actions taken to tackle climate change, I’ll take it.
- blockwriter 4y agoBut the people that are actively misleading you are the same ones that are supposed to implement the solutions. How are we supposed to trust these people will effectuate incredibly difficult tradeoffs if they fail basic litmus tests of accountability?
- logicalmonster 4y agoIn what circumstances has "the end justifies the means" as a political justification ever worked out for the average person?
- iLoveOncall 4y agoThe means is just “blaming their incompetence on climate change”. It’s a small price to pay, and one we are already paying anyway, except they use another excuse at the moment.
- logicalmonster 4y agoYou're only thinking half-a-step ahead. I don't care one way or the other about parasitical politicians trying to salvage fragile careers and egos. I care about what comes next. What happens once you agree to hand them that power to fight climate change? If you accept the principle that the ends justify the means, there's no horror that can't conceivably be justified to fight climate change. This is the exact same mentality that leads to forms of human rights violations like an eternal war on drugs, eternal war on terror, violating peoples' privacy to "protect the children", and many abuses throughout history.