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And what if everyone were honest about what these "damages" should be?

Even this fantasy scenario of consequences is an incredibly low-balled Cost of Doing Business of murder.

I did make the changes personally. Everything must be perfect now in the whole world! You’re welcome!

How ridiculous. We need to be honest about power.

Shouting a plain absurdity is one of the clearest ways to demonstrate group affiliation.

Forcing others to be civil about a lie of existential proportions is one of the clearest ways to demonstrate power.

They have trained you all your life to blame the victims.

Billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars of propaganda are just a coincidence.

And a century of research into more powerful and crushing propaganda. Just a coincidence.

And when I’ve talked to those a fair amount older than me, and they tell me how my "nice" is incredibly sad and denuded and dead by the standards of what they remember… The short memory of mankind, our brief lifespans.

thanks to the catalyst of human influence

My peripheral vision wisely read that as "cataclysm".

I find myself thinking back to growing up in farm country, where everyone would just dump all poisons on the ground. I don’t know whether alternatives were realistically in place for nasty chemicals and substances that you didn’t want. I never heard about them.

Farms get cut up into yards, and I think of whoever chooses the wrong spot for their garden.

On Dates, I Now Look for Climate Compatibility

I wish people didn’t have to read these articles to gain the confidence to ostracize those who destroy a world and everyone on it. (See also: every pandemic story you've read about someone's completely garbage "friend".) But since they plainly do, I hope each such article makes a measureable difference.

Different cases, like I might see a seed pod from something going to seed and think there are various blank patches of ground around that could use a little life and feed a pollinator. Or once or twice I’ve seen very old vegetable seed packets languish in Little Free Libraries and wondered whether they might be at least given a chance out in the world somewhere. Or fruit fallen from trees or seeds or pits from ones I’ve eaten that could take their place out there.

But I don’t have experience, and would have to wing it based mostly on how hospitable somewhere looks for wet/dryness.

(With it of course being understood that if you put it in someone’s yard, they will be pissed at you, and if you put something not from here that wants to take over, it will take over and that’s not for the best.)