In case of the ocean cleanup story that I posted a few tweets below, it should be OBVIOUS that an inanimate net will catch a lot of marine creatures alongside plastic trash, and cause these living beings tremendous suffering for no reason. This is how the physical world works.
And yet, in the world of linguistic / mental conventions, it has become a story of an "environmental success," a "feel-good" story that people read and rejoice. Thus, temporarily, a linguistic construct trumped physical reality, even though physical world is where we still live.
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Needless to say, this trend is everywhere. We become bound to linguistic frameworks that are divorced from the physical world — but of course, in the long run, we still incur costs based on the only world available to us, the physical one.
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In the end, everybody has to deal with those costs, even the richest and the most powerful, as much as they want to believe that they are immune from the harms they create. But it's usually the most vulnerable ones who pay first, and the ones with the quietest voices.
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