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Musikcookie t1_itb709n wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in What we don't owe the future | Longtermism is a philosophy of grandiose ambition but short on useful insights. Our moral obligation is to improve the society we live in, not the ones to come. by IAI_Admin

Well you habe no answer because you are begging the question. Your premise is that life is unsustainable. Which it isn’t inherently.

However currently most people - and I don’t exclude myself here - live unsustainably. And when you admit defeat before you try, that will never change.

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[deleted] t1_itb7wzc wrote

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Musikcookie t1_itb83s7 wrote

Yup. But just because something is, doesn’t mean it has to stay that way.

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[deleted] t1_itb8p88 wrote

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Musikcookie t1_itb8zco wrote

No. But we can do research for recycling technology and make sure energy for those smart phones is produced sustainably.

Also it’s on a scale. You can do it more or less environmentally friendly. So even if we just lived less unsustainably, it’d already be better than just being like “there’s no phone fairy so it’s just a moral quandary, oh well”.

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