alt Hacker Newsthose who remember the past are doomed to repeat it?
seriously, this doesn't seem like a useful argument, regardless of whether true. the fact that humans have committed ecocide in the past doesn't seem like a reason to continue...
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measurablefunc • last Saturday at 11:36 PM
It's genetic, you can't change the character of an exploitative predator by just wishing for it.
> this doesn't seem like a useful argument
It's not. It's a comforting lie to justify inaction. You see it a lot when people justify not voting or civically engaging.
To be clear, I am doing jack shit about deep-sea mining. But that's a choice I'm making and I own it, even if it makes me uncomfortable. (And there are plenty of cases where that discomfort drives folks into action, however minor.)