W T-D on Nostr: A modest proposal: I propose that formally vowing to abjure certain harmful practices ...

A modest proposal:

I propose that formally vowing to abjure certain harmful practices may be very good for you and the community around you, and if we treat it not as a lifestyle choice but an ethical stance comparable to Conscientious Objection ( the refusal to bear arms in war, as for example Quakers do) then it may have more legal protection and political force.

As an initial list of four deeply inconvenient practices to give up for the sake of yourself and all other living beings:
-- flying
-- owning a private car of any kind
-- using, even under duress, LLMs
-- eating meat.

If we treat these not as individual acts, but as collectively undertaken ethical practices, they acquire a political efficacy that may be transformative at a larger scale.

1/2