Almost looks like a collage. I like it! Cool picture!

No, I’m not! What even is an argument? Who decides that?

I’ll write it down as if I was talking to a 6 year old, because it sounds like your mental development might have stopped there.

Try to follow these 3 steps, OK?

1. Think of the artist: Imagine a person who makes something, like a painting or a song. This person is called an artist.

2. See the Art: The artist makes something beautiful, like a colorful picture or a fun song. This is called their art.

3. Two Different Things: The artist and their art are two separate things. Just because someone made a painting, it doesn’t mean everything about that person is good or bad.

Did that help you understand? Or are these steps confusing? Do you see that your comment was extremely dumb?

It’s becoming very difficult to live if you can’t seperate a person from their work.

Compared to a reasonable, empathic person

Acutally I think you made a big error in this analysis

I think the majority of voters support this behaviour. Most people would gladly give away their privacy for the promise that the bad other (be it racial, economical, religious, … whomever you want to scapegoat) will be hurt, too.

there’s not a huge amount of tech coming out of there.

That’s opportunity! Glass halve full :) When it comes to renting infrastructure, there’s plenty of options in Latam and Asia. I haven’t looked at Africa to be honest.

Asia - they’re definitely not any better

Japan, Taiwan, S. Korea are in asia too. It’s not just China and Vietnam.

significant problems

The lack of free speech laws in EU is also a very big problem. EU cares very little for the individual’s rights.

Latam, asia, africa?

Better to have lived a short life outside an office than to live to be a 100 spending 45 years in an office.

That’s a choice you can still make today. What’s keeping you from doing so?

It’s a bad, hurtful joke, fyi

Given that context, can you see how the people who want to stop putting holes in the boat would get frustrated with the people putting holes in the boat

Yes. Can you see how starting to namecall like a toddler is a bad plan? Now you destroy all possibility of cooperation, and the boat is still sinking. It makes things worse!

would be baffled by someone more concerned about the descriptive pejorative than they are by the other guys putting holes in the boats?

Let’s say a boat is sinking. There’s people making holes and there’s toddlers screaming and shouting and kicking everyone in sight. Can you see how a reasonable person would see both as an annoying hinderance that make things worse, not better? How one group telling they don’t like the other group is useless and frustrating childish behaviour - the boat is sinking, remember?

Your whole plan is to show them how things would be better

Yes. Work on technology and policy others will want to copy for their own benefit. It’s the only thing that’s going to work.

The growth in solar power production, for example, isn’t because it’s green. It’s because it’s a cheaper way of producing power in many situations. That’s all that is.

The current methodology of bullying is not working, even doing the reverse. Emissions are currently at an all time high, and rising. Your plan is to keep doing that same thing, antagonize the majority of the world, and expect a different outcome?

Nothing wrong with some good cuckism. You know what rhymes with cuckism? You suck-ism!

You know who’s also a cuck?! YOUR MOM! IN UR STUPID FACE YOU ISTER!!!

You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

That sounds true but I don’t know why

Fuxkig asshole isms are the best. There’s no ist so good as the worst ism.

You know who like ists just like you? Hitler! Yeah u r modern day hitler and pol pot combined fuck shit you

I believe in it. It matches my experience. But I’m aware of the scepticism.

For me this was the first time hearing it. And it made immediate perfect sense what OP meant. A pretty good analogy!

OP came up with the analogy. I understood quite well and caught up with it easily. Well done OP!

Ah ok. You might be new to language? There’s this thing called analogy

These countries

You’re talking about the majority of the world. If you read the article, the EU is part of only a very small group of countries, representing a very very small part of the world’s population and emissions.

We can, and are, antagonizing them all. They can and are simply ignoring us. How does that help climate change mitigation? Or is that not the goal?

You’re saying we should give Jeffery Dahmer a hand job to convince him to stop killing people.

Where did I say that?

I, instead, proposed leading by example. To stop the hateful speech and namecalling that is hindering policy change.

I proposed actually developing good technology and policy internally, that others will want to copy, for their own benefit.

What we’re currently doing, screaming and shouting like a toddler, is clearly not working.