Childhood indoctrination

[bennyboy]

Pfft, we don't even recycle half the non-synthetic shit we have, let alone synthetics.

I've seen this category very often in these kinds of discussions. For example, meat-eaters point out that a "vegetarian" diet of mass-produced grain is going to involve farm machinery causing many deaths-- probably more deaths than a cow diet would.

However, the lack of infrastructure isn't really a good excuse, since it represents a lack of will of people. If they want a purely suffering-free, death-free diet, then it's possible to do that. If they want to recycle stuff, then it's possible to do that.

So the real question should be: what kind of world do we want? In my case, I prefer a relatively pollution-free diet in which I cause as little suffering in others as possible. The infrastructure to do this currently is insufficient-- however, I will still act according to my own vision of a better world, because that's what it means to be human (to me).