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misanthrope

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62. So now the invention of gas-powered engines is a bad thing?

Thu Feb 11, 2021, 07:56 PM

Feb 2021

What about all the lives saved by the advent of internal combustion? Ambulances and private automobiles that got people to a hospital just in time? What about the transplant organs delivered by petroleum or even dirtier airplane combustion? Do you mind that some of that same gas-powered and oil-based technology was instrumental in defeating 20th century fascism?

And as far as societal norms, the hand that rocks the cradle isn't completely powerless in shaping society. It's a burden we all share and utilizing demonization or turnabout bigotry isn't going to change it.

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