Alicorn comments on Action and habit - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 05 July 2012 05:55:38AM *  3 points [-]

Human speech is one of the most valuable resources in the universe, and he were are wasting it on things that convey no information.

It is not a scarce resource on the relevant scale. Water is valuable in the sense that you can do a thousand things, some essential, with it; this does not mean that flush toilets are an abomination.

Comment author: Osuniev 12 March 2013 04:42:37PM 0 points [-]

Arguably... They could be.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1857113,00.html

It is really easy (and almost costless) to reduce the quantity of water they use. It might indeed seem an abonimation to continue using them.