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Not having children is not a sacrifice
It isn't if you don't want them. But the person I responded to seem to want it.
Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?
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Who said they are doing the ultimate sacrifice? What a weird comment.
For someone who wants to have kids it ought to be an extreme sacrifice since they will change most aspects of your life and you will need to spend so much time on them.
For someone who don't it's not a sacrifice. But the person I responded to obviously wants children. So for them it would be an extreme sacrifice to not.
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Industry provides valuable products for billions of people. Hundreds of reckless flights that could be zoom meetings benefit no one.
> Industry provides valuable products for billions of people. Yes, airplanes and jet fuel for example. > Hundreds of reckless flights that could be zoom meetings benefit no one. Sounds like they were recreational. Or is happiness not permitted either? I'd better not drive 10 minutes down to the beach to walk my dog tomorrow in case the carbon police catch me, lol. For that matter I'll bet having a dog in the first pl…
>Or is happiness not permitted either?
Excessive? Better no.
>I'd better not drive 10 minutes down to the beach to walk my dog tomorrow in case the carbon police catch me, lol.
"drive to walk" is this even real?
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#245I've been flying internationally 10-15 times a year for ~10 years. Different routes and destinations each time. I've spent a lot of time searching for hacks like this that let me save a few bucks on flight tickets. Sometimes it works. Sometimes you find that a flight is cheaper depending on which country's website or currency you use to book. Flight tickets are priced dynamically using a variety of factors to determi…
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Not having children is not a sacrifice
It may be for some people that make that choice. This whole thread reeks of people that cannot empathize with a perspective not their own.
How is intentionally choosing to not have children a sacrifice if you live in a western country? We're at a point where these countries need more people, not less, to have children. Having and raising a child is a difficult thing to do
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This is the reality of air travel, 90% of the flights (thus the CO2 emissions) are made by a handful of frequent travellers. Moreover those are very unlikely to be willing to cut on air travel for CO2 emission reasons. So you shouldn't feel bad for your occasional air travel.
> So you shouldn't feel bad for your occasional air travel. I don't understand the implied ethical rule behind this mentality. CO2 emissions are always a problem and to be avoided. What am I missing?
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This is an impressively thorough and considered response.
I'm getting a strong impression it was written by GPT Seems overly long/verbose/conscientious for a human
It’s not verbose, it just follows the same best practice. State premise, expand for a bit, restate premise. ChatGPT leans heavily on that style, mostly because people do.
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> You have been brainwashed into lowering your standard of life Destroying the planet is indeed lowering not only your standard of life, but everyone’s. Remember there’s no planet B.
Relax, the planet can't be destroyed by climate change. Hyperbole are not useful if we want to have a reasonable debate.
That’s nitpicking; writing «the planet» for «the world we live in» is an extremely common metonymy.
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I appreciate your concern about CO2 emissions and the effort you're making to reduce your own carbon footprint. It's important to be conscious of our impact on the environment. I wanted to share some of the ways I also work to reduce my carbon emissions and help address climate change. While it's true that I have taken a number of international flights over the past decade, I am very conscious of my carbon footprint…
Where do you buy carbon offsets?
I don't fly nearly as much as you but I would like to buy offsets when I do fly (and in general.)