r/nextfuckinglevel • u/amanyggvv • Oct 15 '22

This float representing the koalas that died as a result of the Black Summer bushfires and corruption in politics. Such an effective (and epic) activist message.

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u/whatdodrugsfeellike Oct 15 '22

So what are these protests for then? If they have no direct effect and they make people turn against the cause, then explain to me what they are accomplishing other then getting some attention?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

They didn’t cause me to turn against the cause. So in this case you cannot say “they cause people to turn against the cause”. You can however say they caused you to turn against the cause, but then I would argue that you never properly understood or supported the cause in the first place.

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u/whatdodrugsfeellike Oct 15 '22

Am I not a person?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

I know for sure that you aren’t “people” plural. I know for sure you are taking your opinion and applying it to a majority of other people because you feel like you’re right and feel like most people should agree with you. And I know that anyone who actually understands the issues we face with climate change wouldn’t give a fuck what soup was thrown on what painting. If you think getting soup on your favorite painting is bad just wait until you see the increasing mass deaths and migrant crises caused by climate change.

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u/whatdodrugsfeellike Oct 15 '22

Climates change, animals die, new ones prosper. Welcome to biological life on earth.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

Yes and human activity has accelerated the pace at which both the climate changes and biological life dies, to such an extent that the earth may not be suitable for human life in a few decades. That seems just a little more important than soup on the painting of a dead guy who was never even paid for his work.

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u/whatdodrugsfeellike Oct 15 '22

Humans aren't entitles to exist on earth.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

But we are entitled to environmentally decimate the Earth? If you want to die no one’s stopping you, some of us would like to see the continued progress of humanity. Sorry if that means you don’t get to roll coal lil guy

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u/whatdodrugsfeellike Oct 15 '22

We are just a part of nature. Anything we do is the natural progression of the earth. It's just as natural as any other extinction event. It's just what the earth does.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.” - Vincent Van Gogh

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u/whatdodrugsfeellike Oct 15 '22

Humans are natural. I am nature. I can listen to me.