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Referring to the potential starvation deaths of a large group of people as a positive for climate change is like saying you’re glad someone died early from a car accident instead of suicide.
Greg you missed the stop sign!
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Do we have /r/hailcorporate on Fedi yet?
Look, I love using pipe-viewer, but I'm not childish enough to think it isn't piracy. But I guess whatever you feel your entitled to...
Honestly? Yeah, I thought you were serious, because I’ve seen that attitude expressed before. Generally it’s more “this hazy, unspecified population can be sacrificed to help me deal with the existential dread that me and my world are walking off a cliff” than “dear me I so DO delight in death”, but it makes my teeth ache.
Thank you for clarifying, and I’m sorry for jumping on you.
I didn't think he was serious, fwiw.
Nuclear Winter about to solve climate change /s & If there is nothing left to safe there is no need for any efforts /s
I think there might be better alternatives including less suffering
Eh, the way it was written I wouldn’t have read it as sarcasm. Text and tone yada yada. That said, I’ve definitely seen people who seriously think like this.
It's called Malthusianism (after the philosopher Malthus) and, yes, it is a real philosophy.
Sort of. Malthusians believe that disasters which take out large numbers of people help to keep the population in check and are therefore necessary. Obviously a little oversimplified, but that's about what it boils down to.
It's not an illogical stance; it's just one that requires you to become less empathetic.
Completely honest, I lean a little bit more towards nuclear annihilation every day
From the rest of your comment history? Yes, it's entirely believable. It's more surprising that you're walking it back, really.
Literally no way to discern whether it was a sarcastic joke or if you were legitimately an eco-fascist
I see a lot of people on the internet say some pretty horrible shit with a lot of conviction. Sorry that you’re having a rough time. Hopefully adding more clarity to your communication helps a bit.