• flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    How’s driving a car violent? Not exactly good for the environment but I wouldn’t classify that as violent or seriously harmful to any individual (assuming you don’t run anyone over)

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      8 months ago

      Risking someone’s life in the event you don’t have perfect attention aside, no matter what happens in the car you will PM10 dust pollution that gives little kids asthma, and if it’s an ICE car you will release CO2 that brings all life on earth closer to extinction. It’s one of the single most massively violent acts an average human is capable of.

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      8 months ago

      The unethical treatment (borderline or literal slavery) to get the metals the car runs on. Same with real diamonds and gems, meat, many other things.

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        8 months ago

        Which also applies to the phones/laptops people are reading this thread on, along with pretty much all technology we consider essential nowadays

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          8 months ago

          Yup. You can live off the land, or you can be complicit in the pain of others. Most of us choose the latter out of convenience.