army1987 comments on Open question on the certain 'hot' global issue of importance to FAI - Less Wrong

-6 Post author: Dmytry 23 March 2012 08:20AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 23 March 2012 08:15:41PM 0 points [-]

So were you, like, strawmanning yourself? :-/

Comment author: Dmytry 26 March 2012 09:57:39AM *  -1 points [-]

Still not seeing how it is even strawman, btw. I was listing a broader category of people (those without aircon), which includes any narrow categories of people (those who lack clean water, sufficient food, ...... (and aircon) for example). Furthermore those without aircon (or heating) themselves contribute rather little to the warming (both directly and indirectly), so it is pretty damn bad deal for them. I have not, however, implied that the suggested course of action consists of giving them aircon, or that stopping the AGW is the 'cheapest' thing you could do to help, or the like. That's you guys making strawmans. In so much as you can understand that your leisure activities produce CO2, which results in warming, which kills off people somewhere else in the world - by direct action, akin to having fun and throwing a glass bottle out of moving vehicle and killing someone - you should think hard about somehow compensating them for this.

Maybe there's so much fun in throwing a bottle out of a moving vehicle, and you're so rich, that you don't want to give this up and would rather pay. But compensate you must.