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Replying to @gregorylent

The issue? No. Habitability is really collapsing. Rapidly. The reactions to the issue? Yeah, but more like frantic desperation than dogmatism is the mood I'm seeing.

I don't see the trouble with people having emotional reactions to the unfolding catastrophe. Feel your feelings. I also don't see any issue with *not* indulging in panic or despair, whether it's because you feel there's nothing you can do, or you're busy doing it.

Also, I'm a disagreeable fellow as it is. I give my friends and family more than their fair share of trouble by being an asshole. So I'm now morally obligated to add not being able to shut up about the climate to my list of disagreeable traits? Fuck off. They deserve better.

There's no moral imperative to suffer. If there is a moral imperative, it's to do right by yourself and others. Show me a working model of how suffering is essential to ethical or moral behaviour, and I may be inclined to change my mind. But I don't think this model exists.

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