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Originally Posted by Goblin Tears
Again there are countless reasons for it; fear of hell gets priority over that consideration in the case of the religious folks I mentioned in my previous posts. Also, the people with the biggest families in my community are travellers, who often live in caravans, in poor circumstances, and they often drop out of school early and lead empoverished lives, often resorting to crime. So I would imagine they are too busy thinking of other things to even consider the planet's resources. I mean, even if you preached down their throats, do you think they would actually care?
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You just did a pretty good job in both cases of describing people behaving in a self-serving fashion, which basically supports what I was saying. So... thanks.
Everybody in the world has reasons for behaving selfishly, that doesn't make it any less selfish to do so.