@hstone519 Opinions are not entitled to overrule other-opinions,

but objectivity is,

& so is correct-reasoning.

Universe enforces this underlying-law through Natural Selection.

Herdbeasts who're feeling the thundering-"power" of their stampeding-herd,
who stampede off a cliff,

die.

Natural Selection.

Ideologues who get *their* country/nation/population stampeding until universe kills them,
are the same.

They don't accept responsibility,
it is ONLY universe's being INDEPENDENT of mere-opinion, that allows it to "select" the way it does.

& that identifies that universe has the RIGHT to make opinions change, XOR to simply exterminate the ideologues who won't-know.

Universe outranks all our opinions.

Our race's ignoring that .. is powerless, in the end.

Natural Selection's going to exterminate either nearly-all of our kind, or all of our kind:
it is OUR choice which of those-2 options we enforce, this century..

I'm not holding-my-breath in hope, though, having seen humankind's honest meaning, enough.

*shrug*

There will be other worlds, the souls who WOULDN'T grow-up here, .. can go try enforcing our-species' ignorance on them, then, can't they?

Again & again, again & again, forever, enforcing-ignorance until a few grow-up,
on this or that world, sporadically, throughout the endless-stream-of-universes..

but here?

Will any of our race survive this-century?

That'd require objectivity, & correct-reasoning, practicality & pragmatism,
inventiveness & honesty,
etc,
all COMBINED, & doing that relentlessly..

Why would any portion of humankind give-up politics/opinion, for sake of objective-survival??

Values, right??

Why would anybody value objective-integrity-itself, when opinion/politics "feels more powerful", or whatever?

Humankind doesn't value objectivity or correct-reasoning, therefore humankind has the RIGHT to be extinguished by universe, Natural Selection, so that political-delusion is forced to eat the consequences of its meaning.

The human equivalent to "stampeding off a cliff", smashing all our lives at the bottom,
& ignoring/denying responsibility for what we have done..

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No matter: #ClimatePunctuation's still accelerating,
& will continue accellerating, for decades,
until it reaches its peak change-speed,
& then its change-speed will slow-down, again through decades,
into the new equilibrium.

Maybe there'll still be places on Earth where human-life can survive!

maybe at the poles..

but the IDIOCY of pretending that it'll "just stop", when it is a change that is still accelerating..

that isn't "mere opinion"..

( it looks like a bell-curve, btw:

the equilibrium-we-destroyed being the beginning-of-the-bell-curve,
the thickest-part-of-the-bell-curve being when the changing is fastest,
& the settling-into-the-new-equilibrium is the end-of-the-bell-curve.

We are NO-WHERE NEAR the thickest/fastest part of the change's curve.

We're at-least 2-centuries from when the speed-of-change-curve got noticeably-thick, back in the 1800's.

Now think just how hot & violent, in weather, this planet's going to be in 2 more centuries of this kind of change..

The equator looks like it's going to be uninhabitable..

"stampeding off a cliff" is EXACTLY what our-species is doing, "with extra steps".

Who cares, though:
if humankind WON'T know universe's facts,
because only opinion is "real",
then Natural Selection really is the right answer,
that universe ought enforce.

Intentional-ignorance doesn't have any rights, or "entitlement", in universe's impersonal, eternal, eyes.

Does it?

: )

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