[chezlaw]

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Unless you're seriously claiming the black death or last ice age has some systematic adverse effect on us.


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I already said it's "some", not "all".


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Some people lose with AA vs 72 all-in preflop but so what.


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I'm saying that disasters CAN negatively affect future generations. Not that EVERY disaster negatively affects EVERY future generation. This does not equate to me "claiming the black death or last ice age has some systematic adverse effect on us".

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well unless you're saying that climate change in the 21st and 22nd centuries has an expected negative affect on people living the year 20,000 then it can't be because of them that we care about climate change. I see from the following that we actually agree so let let it go.

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So there's a bit of semantic misunderstanding going on. When pokervintage claimed that Al Gore cares about future generations I believe he was including those who would live through climate change. Yes of course the longer afterwards the less relevant it will become,
generally speaking, but that doesn't mean a disaster wont negatively affect people living 500 years afterwards even if it doesn't affect those living 20,000 years later.


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Thank the lord for that, that's what I've been saying. Notice how easy it is to get fixated on the minute fraction of future generations who happen to be close to us - which was the point I made in the first place. It makes not a jot of difference to the (far!!!) future generations and is possible beneficial to them, but it doesn't matter because we don't care a jot about them - the jots cancel out.

Recall that my response was about the world going down the gutter and I was agreeing with pokervintage. My response was about the egotism of people who think they and the (near!!!!) future are especially important in the scheme of things (and a slight abuse of language).

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