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Originally Posted by Taxi
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Identifying the source of the problem is the major component of fixing it. You give such bad analogies i cannot help but think your analysis of the problem here is similarly flawed XD.
Im sorry but global poverty is not gonna get fixed with the average joe donating money to charity and not caused because the average joe is not donating money to charity. Global warming is not caused by people not recycling. Ill leave it at that cuz i dont wanna derail the thread more than it already has been. XD
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I think it is you who completely misunderstood what I meant. Of course global warming etc will not be changed as a result of people recycling - only an idiot would think so, that's why I thought it would be obvious that it was only meant as an example of the kind of flawed logic used in the argument that "if only people [x], then [y]" and why things don't work that way in the real world. The analogies are completely valid, because they all concern problems that to a very large degree can be fixed if people change behaviour (although those issues are obviously much more complex, but as this isn't a debate on how to fix the climate or poverty it isn't relevant to go into detail). Making people change behaviour is much easier said than done, illustrated in abundance by human history.