greedytacothief

I work at a ski mountain, it was spring and the snow was melting. Had to explain that it needs to be below freezing out for the mountain to make more snow. "Fake" snow is still frozen water.

There would need to be an extinction event of over 90% of biodiversity to become the worst extinction event in history. The earth will survive, things will live, what those things will be? Who knows, probably small stuff that burrows underground, they tend to be survivors.

The earth has literally gone through more rapid climate changes in the past.

But I am indirectly affected greatly by overfishing and directly by the overall health of the oceans. The health of the environment directly effects me. So shouldn't I also have some say in the health of the environment?

I think maybe I'm quibbling over word nuance.

Maybe I've got an odd take on it, or we're saying the same thing. Like humans as a whole should definitely try to be more empathetic in their lives. Being more empathetic is something I'm working on a lot myself right now. i don't think empathy is about "Feeling what someone else would feel if you were in their situation". I say that because everyones experience of life is different, some people feel pain more than others, or social pressures, or hunger, or whatever. What I mean is that we experience the world uniquely, and empathy is coming to understand the unique experience of others. As in it's not how I would experience their situation, but how they are experiencing their situation. And a coffee maker has no experience. But maybe I'm talking about something other than empathy

Isn't that personification not empathy? Like you're not understanding it's feelings, but giving it feeling. I think it can be moral to attempt to fix the coffee maker. It also sounds emotionally exhausting (for me) to care that much about something that has no agency of it's own.

Some friendly pushback to help me understand, overfishing doesn't directly effect me, I don't eat fish, I don't live near the ocean. But I'd say it has lots of indirect effects on me. Incentive structures still promote overfishing. What do? What does force mean? Is changing the incentive structure force? Is fines for overfishing, or losing your commercial fishing license force?

(P.S. is know nothing about fishing, this is just to help frame my questions)

To me empathy is a social connection where feeling aren't just being heard, but understood. I'm finding it difficult to understand how that could apply to an object, so what's your definition of empathy?

Don't just tease me like this, what's the objective standard? And like I'm totally following along, but i still want to know what the disagreements are.

I just like ethics and want to hear what you think.

So what I'm not understanding is, why are we putting people in jail for something that isn't causing harm? Unless, is there something about overstaying your visa that is harmful?

In terms of nations, I really have no idea what 3.5 billion means. Like is that a lot? I feel like we probably trade that much with China in like what, a week? A month, a day?

I'm lucky enough to I've around a couple of really good local creameries, and they have some amazing cheeses (Mooncake by sugar house creamery is my favorite). But a couple of years ago I became lactose intolerant. Cabot cheddar doesn't bother me, but most other cheeses do. At least I can still eat as much goat cheese as I want.