Thanks for this, which also helps me to reflect on what I value as well. There is wisdom and truth in your 5 arguments above—whether important enough to over-ride the benefits of explosive growth I’m not sure, but important to consider regardless.
As a side note, I’m not sure why people would downvote this—where’s the bad karma? Disagree for sure, but why downvote? We are free to not like what we don’t like, but......
At the time of this comment the post has 25 karma from 12 votes which seems like not necessarily (or certainly not many) downvotes? Maybe it was different earlier. But I agree downvotes would be strange.
Thanks for this, which also helps me to reflect on what I value as well. There is wisdom and truth in your 5 arguments above—whether important enough to over-ride the benefits of explosive growth I’m not sure, but important to consider regardless.
As a side note, I’m not sure why people would downvote this—where’s the bad karma? Disagree for sure, but why downvote? We are free to not like what we don’t like, but......
At the time of this comment the post has 25 karma from 12 votes which seems like not necessarily (or certainly not many) downvotes? Maybe it was different earlier. But I agree downvotes would be strange.
I gave it 8 so it was 17 from 11 or something before. You do make a good point though its only a few downvotes so maybe not that bad.