• doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    Parents naturally have children. Children that will very much be alive to experience the “find out” part. I am incapable of comprehending how shortsighted and self centered someone has to be to be like: Well, at least I had a nice life, good luck everybody!

    And on a low level, they’re kind of right because most ordinary people aren’t to blame for this, so shaming “parents” makes no sense.

    Shame the international petroleum conglomerates, plastic producers, shipping, etc. You know, the actual emitters in the billions of gigatons.

    I agree that ordinary people are only partly to blame and that we need to focus on the worst offenders. However, the indifference of large parts of previous generations surely enabled much of the current situation. Most of our parents could vote, most had a chance to drive a tiny bit of change in some kind of way. Some even held positions of power or still do. Putting some blame on them surely isn’t wrong, especially if they still don’t care.

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      1 day ago

      Aaaaaaaaah i hate that this is what we say to that argument!! Why does it end there? Like “its the megacorporations.” Oh ok then nobody is to blame.

      No. Actually The megacorporations are to blame. Attack. The megacorps are run by people (so far) but if you kill one lackey, the corp replaces them (without mourning I might add), so how can anyone attack the corp and not the people? The law? No it stops there?

      Huh, so these mega evil entities are destroying the planet? Huh. Well doesn’t look like anything to me? Yet they can lobby and decide laws? Is that how good we are at fighting then?

      They are pure demonic world eaters and have lobbyed to become legal persons. To be the only entities without soul that can be considered a legal person in our legal system. If that system is broken to that degree… well, if they are persons, then they can bleed. And die. I am not this weak at fighting for my planet

    • Genius@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      It’s very simple: they don’t love their children.

      And to anyone who’s going to disagree, no. True love is wise. True love is curious. True love wants to seek out the truth. Love without knowledge, love without empathy? That’s not true love. That’s toxic infatuation. Possessiveness.