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LMAO that was my post and genuinely I had no idea it would go like that. I thought it would be a piece of insight most people didn’t have.
Me, somebody who has studied buffalo for almost my entire life and career: “If you kill a Buffalo, this is what will happen: it will die. This sentence describes the impact of a dead buffalo. Buffalo are endangered and easier to kill than you may realize, so be careful!“
The response: “Some Native Americans’ material conditions absolutely required that they kill buffalo, so I get to do it for fun, for some reason”
Like… be so serious right now and just tell me you like stacking rocks. I’m literally a geologist, I get the appeal so much more than you realize lol. The presentation of facts were obviously not intended as a personal attack on anybody, but it’s telling that some people invoked the victims of literal genocide, whose land they occupy currently, to defend their objectively harmful actions to the commons, especially over a matter so small in scale and easy to not do. :thinking-about-it:
I knew it was going to get someone bigmad because every time there’s a thread on :reddit-logo: about not stacking rocks a ton of redditors get bigmad that someone is telling them not to do something that they want to do if they ever left their desk, and, like it or not, we’ve got a lot of redditors here who get mad when you tell them to wash their anus periodically.
I loved the argument of “telling people what to do does not give communism an endearing look”
You know what else isn’t an endearing look for a communist? Ruining the COMMONS for funsies
People do this shit every time they’re criticized about anything.
stop fucking with nature for fun
but, uh, natives have rock cairns!!!
go vegan
but, uh, inuits!
think for even a second before taking an action
sorry I’m pretty sure indigenous people don’t think :galaxy-brain:
It’s just so overtly racist. I don’t understand how that shit isn’t an instant ban. Using indigenous people as a prop for your privileged first world bullshit is just completely fucking unacceptable
I will continue to stack the rocks, not for the sake of an imaginary native or neurodivergent person who I only care about when I’m defending my actions, but because I’m selfish and want to stack the rocks. See, it’s that easy. Not everything needs to be tied into this greater moral framework. You can do something questionable for no greater reason than you being kind of a prick. You’ll get people yelling at you either way, so you might as well be honest.
Fucking thank you. People need to get off of their moral high horses ffs. We all do shit that’s not ideal, we’re not monks that live in a cave
I mean, please don’t do it. It’s completely avoidable behavior that in the long term damages the commons for everybody, let alone the fact that it is very bad for waterways while simultaneously being completely avoidable behavior.
Like this isn’t an issue of telling people to stop eating meat, to stop driving cars, etc. Like literally just don’t go out of your way to destroy a fragile ecosystem is actually a really small ask that everybody can do by literally doing nothing instead. You just don’t have to ruin the commons for other people for funsies
I’m not arguing that people should stack rocks, I agree with you there that people should not do it. Leave no trace is a very important principle, for the reasons you state in your comment.
It’s just really annoying when people try to find some imaginary moral high ground to justify doing something after someone else told them that it’s a bad thing to do. Like it’s the most bold face type of lying you’ll ever see.
My comment is not arguing for doing things that are bad, but rather poking fun at those that hop on the make believe moral high ground to justify continuing to do something after being told it’s harmful.
Like if you find doing something so bad that you have to make up some contrived excuse to morally justify it, wouldn’t it be easier on your mind and soul to just not do that action?
And if you don’t feel strongly about it, there’s no reason to stop doing said action. So why do people make excuses to justify doing something “wrong” that they don’t even care about that much? Seems like unironic virtue signalling to do such. Trying to tell everyone how much of a good person they still are, even though they do something that others see as “bad”.
We went from people having a temper tantrum over their treats being criticized to people having a temper tantrum because they want to stack rocks for their Instagram lol.
I honestly don’t think any of the people who suddenly feel very strongly about stacking rocks even give a fuck about it and literally just want any excuse to be a dickhead on the internet, it’s some Reddit-tier bullshit especially from the one guy
It’s ok, you can name names. We all know it was removed by mod who did it
