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The point that people go overboard when pursuing a fix to a societal issue is one worth talking about.
The way its presented in this article though feels slightly disengenous and biased. Heating your home is not morally wrong for instance. It obviously depends on particular circumstances such as are you wearing clothes that minise the amount of heating required or are you wearing a singlet and shorts and complaining about the cold and therefore you need to turn on heating? Are you heating a room from 19*C to 25*C? Is it purely a comfort issue or a health issue? The consequences of ones actions must be considered in the context of the marginal benefits of those actions.
Its also challenging to simplify the over population issue as done in the article. Due to the way we run our society and the massive wastes associated, the more people on the planet equates to more unnecessary waste. This was never properly addressed and instead the simplification of this concept seems to lack any understanding of why this idea has any traction at all.
It seems to say seem to say, its early and I could be wrong, that as culling ourselves is immoral the reasons behind the overpopulation issue must be moral. Driving a hummer is immoral in my eyes as it is a choice that brings very little, if any, marginal benefit over driving a smaller car with a lower carbon footprint. It is a choice made without concern for negative consequences and calculation of the marginal benefits compared to the other options. To me that seems very close to the exact definition of immoral.
All in all the core is worth discussing as it relates to pretty much every movement. The way it is dressed though seems to me to be an attempt to take away from the individual the consequences of their actions and belittle ideas that are presented as part of the argument through their oversimplification.
Disclaimer: I don't have access to a pc at the moment and am writing my reply without constantly refering back to the article which is not entirely fair and leaves room for inaccuracies in my presentation of the argument made.
There's nothing here!