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by sailingparrot 1947 days ago
Ah yes the good old "but something worse already exists therefore it is ok" argument. Always very effective.
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more like; "but the amount of electricity is so insignificant to us that we use more doing absolutely nothing"
GP didn’t conclude “therefore it is ok”.
More like theres hundreds of things in the world that use more energy than BTC like gaming, gold mining, existing banking infrastructure, social media servers, etc - and the comparison is stupid in the first place. People just want to virtue signal because they dont like other people getting ahead of them and they didnt invest. Thats the crux of the outrage just like people get into stock investment wars.