Using excessive force while arresting anti-genocide protesters I guess

O’man, I and I still so fah aweh from Ethiopia.

Ye’men! Gettin closah to Ethiopia.

Er… I trea’in to get to Ethiopia.

Praise to Jah, Ethiopia and Haile Selassie I.

Excellent. That’s your initial observation. Now formulate a testable hypothesis, operationalise your variables, design a controlled experiment, collect sufficient data, replicate your findings, and submit your results for peer review.

Get back to us when you do.

I think his argument against books is better explained as that he was against the mindless consumption of media? Absorbing information without discussing it through spoken word. He must have been all for using art and literature as a means to express ideas, that’s what he did.

Then putting this up against new technologies becomes more interesting.

You generally don’t hear people who are offended by perfumes, while you do hear the ones who like it.

For me there is nothing worse than walking in nature behind someone whose perfume I can smell, I’m outside to get fresh air not to smell Hibiscus Mahajad Baccarat 540 or whatever.

True, that would be even better but sounds like communism so it won’t happen. I would certainly prefer it over the ice floe thing

True, but that’s not the case yet. Old people generally need healthcare and other services (provided by young people).

And they don’t provide anything in return from their care homes. Honestly, it’s best to just send them off on an ice floe.

Of course I agree people dying is horrible, but there need to be enough people to take care of the elderly and to keep society running. Best hope for care robots I guess, although that seems dystopian too.

After all this time humanity finally created a world with high life expectancy, just to start wondering now whether we should.

And you can easily prevent all the damage to the environment by just keeping your cat inside.

What I was originally replying to. I’m just saying there is a difference between some and all

Yes it prevents some damage, but not all. The pet food industry is resource intensive.

Lol, tell that to a couple who can’t have kids. “Just get a cat”. See how they respond.

The difference between farmed and wild meat is crucial so no I may not as well argue that.

Your specific cat being a rescue says nothing about the significant environmental impact of pet food production

I’m implying cats have an effect on the climate because they eat meat. Not telling anyone not to have cats. I’m not sneakily implying anything else. I’m also not saying anything remotely controversial.

No you only had the choice before you got the cat, I agree it’s a bit late to kill it now.

But also: I’m not even telling you to kill your cat, that’s your doing.

No, the difference is that cats are kept as a fun companion. It’s a choice. The choice of killing yourself is a bit different I’d say. That’s a false comparison.

I’m not advocating for anyone to have or not have cats because of the environment. There’s no problem with any single individual cat, just like there is no problem with an individual owning a car. It is every household having one that is causing problems. But no one is going to forbid a certain individual from owning a car, neither am I judging anyone for owning a cat.

For a choice of having a pet it’s worth considering the effect on the environment I’d say. Albeit on a different level than whether one should consider killing him- or herself.

And again, I’m merely replying to a statement made above. I’m not telling anyone what to do.

The point is keeping them inside doesn’t prevent all damage to the environment, as a reply to what is said above. Is that not how this works?

Then there is no animal friendly way to keep cats without damage to the environment

And feed them sustainable, vegetarian food?

Edit: I see the word “local” was added before “environment” later… To be clear, I’m not advocating keeping cats inside and feeding them vegan food. I was just stating their food has a significant impact on the environment, also if you keep them indoors.