It’s not just empathy for the sake of empathy. We are part of a delicate ecosystem that is affected in millions of ways, especially unnatural things. Everything we do to it will splash back on us.
The conservatives I know all have this mindset: “It’ll figure itself out. The drive for profit always finds a way.” It’s a nearly admirable amount of trust, if only it wasn’t so horrendously misplaced.
The trouble is negative externalities don’t have a part in that thinking. You need enforced legislation to concert the gap, and that’s been on the decline for decades (e.g. enabling monopolies, weakened environmental laws, regressive taxation, etc, etc).
Having lived in the US all my life, I think the public reaction to cattle poison spray would be “well, as long as I can’t taste it in the meat.”
I wish we all had more empathy for the life we share this planet with.
It’s not just empathy for the sake of empathy. We are part of a delicate ecosystem that is affected in millions of ways, especially unnatural things. Everything we do to it will splash back on us.
The conservatives I know all have this mindset: “It’ll figure itself out. The drive for profit always finds a way.” It’s a nearly admirable amount of trust, if only it wasn’t so horrendously misplaced.
The trouble is negative externalities don’t have a part in that thinking. You need enforced legislation to concert the gap, and that’s been on the decline for decades (e.g. enabling monopolies, weakened environmental laws, regressive taxation, etc, etc).