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  • The thing that makes the most sense to me is some combination of like animism and panpsychism. Then it doesn’t matter what may or may not be conscious, basically treat anything like it might be to the most practical level. Though I realize this is crazy talk to most people.

    For example, don’t destroy stuff and cause what might be harm just for the hell of it.

    • Don’t kill a plant because someone called it a “weed”
    • A person using the wood of a tree for warmth, cooking, survival is part of the cycles of the planet. A corporation destroying forests so those in charge of it can skim profits is not.
    • Thank the plants and animals that gave their lives for your food, shelter, and things, and don’t waste their lives.
    • Maybe you have a piece of furniture that has history and has been in the family. Maybe it has some sort of spirit we can only partially understand. Maybe spirits come into being sometimes, when an object is built with love, such a a baby is made, or when someone builds a nice table. Destroying that table is more than simply the breaking of wood, it’s the loss of a history, a being. A materialist view of the world is so limiting.


  • It’s only baffling because of projection.

    We all understand others in large part by projection. What’s happening here is decent people are projecting their sense of empathy onto people that do not have the capacity to experience it and being surprised. We need to get it into our heads that these people are not going to see the error in their ways and change. We have to remove them power somehow.

    We normally talk about projection when right wingers project their fears, ignorance, and crime onto people not in their in-group but that isn’t the only place it exists.








  • Its just an odd double standard you have, some chemicals are OK to be added, others are not.

    You misundersand. No chemeicals added to water are OK, but chlorine is tolerable considering it saves millions of lives. Everything has a cost to benefit ratio. Adding chlorine to tap water has a huge benefit, fluoride does not.

    Fluoride is NOT a neurotoxin in the amounts the found in tap water

    How can you know the dose a person gets from a drug added to tap water? The fact is that dosing by tap water is one of the worst drug distribution methods possible.

    Everything is toxic in high enough quantities, and if you think we should ban something because in concentrate it is toxic, then we need to ban water too

    This is silly and does not relate to my argument.