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Why is your moral compass calibrated according to the worst people? Is not being the worst possible human being good enough?

Also, as long the general public doesnt change whats acceptable and what not through their actions, why would the rich change anything? Theyre not the ones who will suffer from climate change and they dont care.

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It’s about efficiency.

What’s better? Forcing 1000000 people to eat bugs and beans, or summarily executing one Elon Musk?

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You dont need to force anyone. People make their own decisions.

By the same reasoning, would you abolish elections because letting a single person decide is more efficient?

In theory, I agree with you, it is way more efficient to just ban cars, ban billionaires, distribute their money and end world hunger. But thats not realistic. There is absolutely no indication that any politician will even consider any of that, as long as the population still keeps driving around in massive SUVs, eating mass produced meat and buying everything from Amazon.

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Man you guys sure love to jump to absurd conclusions using apples to oranges comparisons… First the guy comparing eating beans to child abuse, now you… It’s almost as if trying to force your lame lifestyle on billions of people requires leaps of logic only a protein deprived brain can achieve.

First off, you can’t measure the efficiency of one person deciding vs multiple.

You can, however, determine how much co2 one person emits.

There’s also no indication that politicians will ever consider banning meat and yet here you are trying to make people eat beans on toast every meal.

Look, all I’m saying, if you truly care about the planet, instead of trying to force lifestyle changes on 99% of the population, there’s 1% of them that emits 15% of CO2 without really contributing anything useful to society.

There’s a quick ROI. Be the change you want to see in the world.

Or you could eat beans I guess.

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