Comment by Gravity_Beetle on 26/01/2020 at 06:57 UTC

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View submission: Reductio: if we consider merely affecting the environment to be morally wrong, we face the conclusion that our existence is evil. This indicates we have made a mistake...

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Did you read the article? The author’s whole point is that we *shouldn’t* blame ourselves for merely existing / having any affect on the environment.

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Comment by [deleted] at 26/01/2020 at 08:01 UTC

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I did, and his argument fails from the start because of his title. It presents a false dichotomy of a persons state of existence and fails to convey the idea behind the article. So he loses most of his potential audience due to headline bias.