sometimes my thoughts stray from the water…

an omnipotent creator being almost certainly doesn't exist but if it does, it's a supervillain

gods shouldn't exist but we keep creating them to use as weapons. and no one knows how to defuse one

gods don't exist which is a relief bc otherwise we'd be forced to hunt them down for execution

creator god exists and we owe it nothing (DEEPLY unqualified)

god/s abandoned us and it hurt at the time but in hindsight we escaped a highly toxic relationship

Word for today: wisdom of repugnance

Like:

Person a: "this thing is ethically wrong because it does a, b, and c demonstrably harmful things"

Person b who wants to do that thing: "your disgust holds no ethical weight, so it's okay if i do that"

Person a: "who the fuck said anything about disgust?"

Like. There is no "justifying" that works here if you have any real non-disgust-based argument. If you don't have a non-disgust-based argument, you probably should be told to question why you think the thing is wrong. Maybe it'll lead to you not believing the thing is wrong, maybe it'll lead to you having real, actual reasons for believing the thing is wrong.

But also, like. You should probably let go of the idea that there are specific "evil people" too. There are people who do harmful things. You yourself have probably done harmful things; i can't prove it, because i don't know you, but i feel pretty confident in it. You are not evil because you have some harmful things. The thing isn't "hunt down the evil people", it's "get people to stop doing harmful things, or if we can't then stop people from doing harmful things."

The worry that this could be used to justify harmful things is absolutely absurd, and honestly could probably use the dunking on it's been getting.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reduce what you can

Reuse everything still in working order

Recirculate what you don’t need by sharing or selling onward

Refurbish what’s fallen out of good condition so it lasts longer

Repair what’s broken altogether

Repurpose what can’t serve its original function

Recycle what is unsuitable for repurposing