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Americans simply have no idea how much of what they take for granted is simply an unsustainable luxury. That absolutely includes leftists, too.

Responsibility comes not from fault, it comes from power to affect change. We do have the power. No individual person has, sure, but we all have a little bit of impact. You people fully understand that concept for racism or sexism, so why are you pretending it's different here? Instead of looking at who has more power, why are you never asking yourself who has less power? You have the power of entire fucking families in the poorest countries in the world. You know, the people you pretend to care about when we talk about the GLOBAL climate change problem? Weird how the global-ness leaves your body the second we talk about responsibility.....

Seriously, there's a really good chance everyone here it in the global top 10%. And just like the local top 10%, we OVERCONSUME!

You say it's important not to assign blame, yet this entire thread is about blaming companies. You keep using the word "ethically consume", as if consumption is this magical shield that saves you from all responsibility. If I want to see a woman raped and I rape a woman and tape it, that's obviously horrible. But if I instead find someone to PAY to create the video so I can CONSUME it, that suddenly cancels ANY AND ALL responsibility. WTF?

Calling for people to do what they can, which absolutely includes consuming differently, is the only correct choice here. Stop picking and choosing the parts of activism that require no effort from you personally. Stop pretending like the "system" is some kind of nefarious being in a cave we can just slay. We are all the system, we are all responsible to the degree that we have the power to change.

You might agree a little, but then talk about how little power we have. For one, do you think that's true for feminism, or anti-racism? Me not making sexist jokes has a tiny, tiny impact on patriarchy. Can I then just keep doing that, because it makes no real difference? A bunch of rich patriarchs have so much more power, therefore can I just sit on my lazy ass and never do anything feminist, expect call myself feminist? Secondly, again, you're picking and choosing what effort is ok to ask for. You ask for political activism, but draw the line at changing your habits where you can. That is simply non-sensical. Finally, you're just wrong. Global climate change is GLOBAL. You do not get to shirk your duty on the pretense of powerlessness. The average American has the power and influence of ENTIRE FAMILIES in poorer countries. You know, the countries likely most affected?

This is the crowd that preorders a DIGITAL ONLY game that hasn't released a single lick of gameplay video. GTA 6 is proof that capital g Gamers are a lost cause.

The sane people that game have to just stay away from all the ball and gun Gamers, and support the indie scene.

Monkeys Paw twist: It includes all the animals you've eaten, making the number basically pointless for 99% of people.

Don't Buddhists use a similar loop hole to eat meat? In theory, they shouldn't be killing and eating animals because of the non-violence. But if they launder it via some other hunter, that's fine.

I mean, it's not like we care about consent when it comes to the animals we eat, or whose secretions we drink. Weird to draw the line at sex/rape, but not at killing/murder.

For how many people do you think animals are the only viable food source? How many in this thread? Like 10%? Sure hope anyone with options therefore doesn't....

Meh, the cooling effect would take care of things very quickly. Imagine there's a guy popping the tires of all trucks or SUVs in your city. How many would it take for people to start parking somewhere else? Not many.

For now, the parasites still need to live with and besides labrorers and normal people. Immortality can't yet be bought and a cheap knife or gun can create damage no amount of money can fix. That'll change once the autonomous murder robots become self sufficient.

This seems really super straight forward. Demand increases, price increases. Why would you sell your labor for less than the max you can get? If another company offers you twice your salay, are you declining?

This isn't even a capitalist thing. Markets and supply and demand have existed long before capitalism, or socialism.

It's the same reason rents are high in cities. If 100 houses need to be distributed to 1000 families, you need a mechanism to "get rid" of 900. Increasing the price for the rare commodity is one of the options, a lottery like in the DDR is another.

Never ever have I seen it used in that manner. It's always used as a thought terminating cliche suggesting that any comparison requires two things to be equal.

That sounds very much like must online leftists. Every single thing that improves the world slightly is pushed against, simply because it doesn't solve every problem.

Of course, none of these people do anything for the Revolution they love so much. They're evangelical at this point. Where the Revolution is the second coming, requiring no actual work, just believing in it.