"...including being prepared to surrender to a 60-year life expectancy instead of a 90-year life expectancy, if that's what it came to..."
Let me get this straight. People are going to kill a lot of people with their carbon footprints so let's preemptively kill a lot of people so that people don't kill people. And we're going to need a very powerful government to force these people to act in ways that will kill them that way we're sure that they won't kill people with their carbon footprint.
How about this instead. We decrease the power of government and encourage people to make up their own minds about how to live. If our carbon footprints are as catastrophic as you think, a lot of people will die and the problem takes care of itself basically the same way as the intentional preemptive killing of people. If our carbon footprints turn out to be not so bad, we didn't intentionally kill a bunch of people...win, win.
Of course if the real agenda is to create a hugely powerful government well I'll let Michael Oakeshott have the last word:
“…But this condition of human circumstances [the right to live in a social protectorate which relieved him from the burden of “self-determination”] was seen to be impossible unless it were imposed upon all alike. So long as others were permitted to make choices for themselves not only would his anxiety at not being able to do so himself remain to convict him of his inadequacy and threaten his emotional security but also the social protectorate which he recognized as his counterpart would itself be disrupted. The security he needed entailed a genuine equality of circumstances imposed upon all. The condition he sought was one in which he would meet in others only a replica of himself. What he was everybody must become…”
Great 2 comments. You do realize it will be read as carbon footprints (the white West), people who will be killed (non-white everywhere else), ergo "You are EVIL and must be destroyed"!
"...including being prepared to surrender to a 60-year life expectancy instead of a 90-year life expectancy, if that's what it came to..."
Let me get this straight. People are going to kill a lot of people with their carbon footprints so let's preemptively kill a lot of people so that people don't kill people. And we're going to need a very powerful government to force these people to act in ways that will kill them that way we're sure that they won't kill people with their carbon footprint.
How about this instead. We decrease the power of government and encourage people to make up their own minds about how to live. If our carbon footprints are as catastrophic as you think, a lot of people will die and the problem takes care of itself basically the same way as the intentional preemptive killing of people. If our carbon footprints turn out to be not so bad, we didn't intentionally kill a bunch of people...win, win.
Of course if the real agenda is to create a hugely powerful government well I'll let Michael Oakeshott have the last word:
“…But this condition of human circumstances [the right to live in a social protectorate which relieved him from the burden of “self-determination”] was seen to be impossible unless it were imposed upon all alike. So long as others were permitted to make choices for themselves not only would his anxiety at not being able to do so himself remain to convict him of his inadequacy and threaten his emotional security but also the social protectorate which he recognized as his counterpart would itself be disrupted. The security he needed entailed a genuine equality of circumstances imposed upon all. The condition he sought was one in which he would meet in others only a replica of himself. What he was everybody must become…”
Michael Oakeshott
“The Masses in Representative Democracy”
Great 2 comments. You do realize it will be read as carbon footprints (the white West), people who will be killed (non-white everywhere else), ergo "You are EVIL and must be destroyed"!