| I mean, selfish vs compassionate is a huge philosophical problem, and we
can use a shortcut and just say that the only real behavior is a selfish
behavior, because even compassion ultimately fuels our own selfishness
(it's about making us feel good when helping others). I didn't want to go that road. Just wanted to highlight, that sometimes
the act of ensuring that we live in a good environment forces us to make
sacrifices. This is what I meant by "compassionate behavior". And a
selfish person lives in this environment, but doesn't sacrifice anything
-- they live like parasites. So my remark was about being a slave to the
parasite, by having to sacrifice something personal (energy, resources),
so that others could live in the same quality environment, without
sacrificing anything. For me that doesn't seem like a good deal. By the way, > I agree with you in a sense. Let’s take a big global human problem. Obesity.
> How the heck does that get solved? Force everyone to eat what we tell them?
> Force them to exercise? Good luck. Obesity is mostly a calorie intake problem. Introduce sugar tax. Regulate sugar ads aimed to kids. Introduce health
risk information on sugar products (like it was done on cigarettes).
Increase the cost of healthcare if the obesity problem is not addressed
for an extended period of time. Stop allowing promotion of "heathly at
every size" agenda. Force it, because obese people apparently aren't able to think straight
in this area. I'm not saying that it's possible to eliminate obesity down to each
individual, just like it's impossible to eliminate the use of drugs by
even criminalizing them, but there's certainly a lot of things that can
be done. > Ozempic is an innovation with lots of pros and cons. I think that Ozempic treats the result, not the cause. So I don't think
it shouldn't be seen as a solution to anything. |