First off, like PK, I find it pretty shocking that you really believe that someone who doesn't share a passion for the environment is more likely to steal and/or assault people.JackB1 wrote:You are taking what I said too literally and blowing it out of proportion. I am just saying they go hand and hand with each other. Who do you think would more likely mug you in a dark alley....person #1, who could care less about the environment and the world around him, or person #2, who treats the planet and the world around him with respect?
Even if we assume that premise is true (which I am not conceding), correlation is not causation. More likely, there is something in the personality of environmentalists that causes them to be sympathetic people in general, environmentalism just being one manifestation of their personality. Perhaps kindness and gentility is another manifestation of the same character trait. Either way, the fact that they care for the environment is not causing them to be less likely to steal.
Lastly, as a general note, I think your tone has become pretty condescending. I don't want to gang up on you or throw s*** all over the place, but my impression of your common thread between your posts is that your think of your own views as enlightened, and people that disagree with you simply are ignorant, blinded by religion, or bullheaded. I think you need to give a little more credit to the people you are arguing with, and maybe the discussions would remain a little more civil. This is particularly ironic considering you are the one continually espousing the view that if we just treated the environment and each other with more respect many great issues such as poverty and war would go away.
