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Is it really better to have less and be emotionally attached to that than to have a lot of junk and not care about it? As for the carbon footprint - it's just
by lazyjones 14y ago
Is it really better to have less and be emotionally attached to that than to have a lot of junk and not care about it?
As for the carbon footprint - it's just as much vanity as everything else in our lives. When you die, you won't be rewarded for having had a small carbon footprint, just like your wealth will be useless to you.
- Evbn 14y agoI guess I would rather leave knowing I made people feel good, and not that I made them sick.
- woe 14y agoReally? Yes. It is better. Absolutely. Unquestionably. But if you can't see that creating an unwanted, unused piece of stuff is obviously, necessarily worse than not wasting the raw materials and human time and effort, I'm not sure any amount of discussion will help. It is not vanity for me to hope that my daughter might be able to enjoy a world at least as good as the one I did (although it is, alas, vain). When I die I won't be rewarded - or punished - for anything I have ever done. But she might. Not to care about the effect our actions will have on other people is the very definition of selfishness. And I'm glad that I don't live in a world where the only alternative to selfishness is vanity.