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by adrianN 2499 days ago
If you kill somebody once a month but a government near you decides to start a war, does it make your murder ethically acceptable?
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Terrible analogy. Someone making a campfire, like humans did for thousands of years, isn't doing something remotely as bad as committing murder.

The analogy only works if what a single person is doing is inconsequential if they are the only ones doing it. Murder certainly does not belong there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

Murder isn't a good example of it.

I hardly think that the GHG emissions of countries other than China are inconsequential.