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Ay-Nawn  ·  3104 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Survivor guilt in the Anthropocene

    Could you enlighten me about what I'm missing? She made the point that guilt can lead to action, but is it productive action to bring back extinct species?

With regard to anything you're missing: actually, nothing. I, subjectively, agree with you here. My not knowing any better is just speaking to the fact that posting my belief here wouldn't do too much in the way of making progress against this silly endeavor, rather than harboring some secret knowledge about the project.

    She made the point that guilt can lead to action, but is it productive action to bring back extinct species? The rest of the article really meandered from placebos to determinism.

My interpretation of this bit was her tying in other causes of motive alongside wrestling with contradictory, yet prevailing schools of thought that we as humans have developed over time.

I swear I had some interesting idea tying into Calvinism and determinism that related back to the article.... seems I lost it. But, hey, you win some and you lose some, eh?