| I doubt as many people keep track of the negative effects of ice cream as much as the recent moral interest of Bitcoin. I don't blame people though, for whatever reason, American moralism is on the rise again. It's going to be a dark decade. Just a couple negative effects of ice cream that I could think of, put in similar morally leaning terms as people talk about Bitcoin on: - ice cream is violence against animals because it is part of the dairy ecosystem which forever keeps cows in a lactating state even to their own detriment [1] - ice cream contains high fat, calories, sodium, sugar and dairy components which contribute to obesity and a higher death toll [2] - ice cream impacts the environment because it requires large dairy farms, in order to be cost effective, packed with lots of cows which produce their own green house gases [0] I very much dislike the abundance of moral arguments. In debate a moral argument requires you to offer no alternative to solve the problem, just dictate what something should or should not be and some supporting evidence for why. In my view, a moral argument should be one that occurs in your head and is the catalyst for developing a paradigm that is better, not one you bring to the debate floor or at very least less often than we see them in debate today. Some links: 0: https://foodprint.org/reports/the-foodprint-of-dairy/ 1: https://freefromharm.org/dairyfacts/ 2: https://www.foodbehind.com/risks-of-eating-ice-cream/ |