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The rise of end times fascism (www.theguardian.com)

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 3 days ago (30 children)

our duties to one another

Uh.. what duties are those?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (28 children)

To bet against the future on this scale – to bank on your bunker – is to betray, on the most basic level, our duties to one another, to the children we love, and to every other life form with whom we share a planetary home.

I'd say we have the general duty to help those in need since we're living on the same planet. This idea of escapism, that I can build a bunker and hide from the poor destitute masses until they die off, is morally reprehensible. We have a duty to 1) not do that and 2) work together to limit, mitigate, and possibly reverse the damages of climate change so life is alright for the maximum number of people.

How's that sound to you?

[+] [email protected] -8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (27 children)

I'd say we have the general duty to help those in need since we're living on the same planet.

I don't follow. Why does the fact that we're living on the same planet mean that we have a general duty to help those in need?

We have a duty to 1) not do that

Why?

and 2) work together to limit, mitigate, and possibly reverse the damages of climate change so life is alright for the maximum number of people.

Why?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I love how you're essentially "just asking questions" the concept of helping other people. This is where we're at in the year of our lord 2025.