Re: Who is the bigger sinner
What is so constructive or productive about using a thread as a platform to encourage a collective shunning of one family…whom the OP clearly holds in contempt based on the tone of his post…and whom even he would have to admit is not solely responsible for all the world’s pollution? Why just this family? Why not judge all other offenders as well? Why even bring religion into it? Most, if not all, religions don’t condone environmental pollution.
If one wants to sincerely encourage people to take care of the natural environment, then it won’t be accomplished by polluting the social environment. Judging people creates feelings of animosity that will be a hindrance in accomplishing the goal of taking better care of the Earth. Just look at the direction this thread took. How many members are seriously giving environmental pollution a thought? Now imagine if Knight used the same approach at an actual convention on the Environment or some other more formal setting, what response do you think it will get? Don’t rush to defend a person based on just the fact that they have supported you in the past or that they share some beliefs with you. Look at what the person is currently doing…look carefully…to see if their thoughts/actions even deserve your justification/support.
And as for you saying it’s an “open discussion”…err, there is nothing “open” let alone healthy about a discussion which starts off with a broad topic such as the natural environment and sharply drops down or “shrinks” to collective judging. That’s not “open” as it doesn’t expand…instead it shrinks and narrows.