Let's talk Gaians

[Zelot]

Being in a terrible position like that and striking out would be rational. If, however, they were, for instance non-Muslim Germans from Berlin, living reasonably comfortably, who decided to go and join a Palestinian terrorist group...

That's how I see Gaians.

They aren't from Leeds, where pollution is a problem. They originated from Cambridge, where there was no, and is no, BMM presence. Planetforming will never have an effect, positive or negative, upon them in their lifetimes.

There's little or no rationality here, just as there is little or no rationality in terrorists who use suicidal methods.

So rationality has something to do with your proximity to the problem? Then why would someone work for Doctors without Borders, or many of the United Nations sponsored aid organizations, or for that matter their local food bank. It's ok for someone to have interests in causes that dont effect them personally, when YOU think they do it in a good way, but not when YOU think they do it in a bad way.

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