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Recycling Is Anti-Human
Submitted by Anthony Gregory on Wed, 2010-06-09 03:00
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Saving the planet has nothing to do with it. Column by Rob Lyons.
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Geez, I guess I'd better start throwing my pop cans away. I sure don't want to be evil! Heh.
One can go overboard with this anti-recycling stuff. Yeah, the ruling class twists recycling and other versions of "living lightly" to their own ends, just like they twist everything else. That does not mean all people who want to be less wasteful are idiots or tyrants.
The fact is, if people want to recycle, there is nothing freedom lovers can do to stop them (without using violence). It's not recycling per se that is bad, but forced recycling. Let's keep focused on the evil here.
Sometimes I think libertarians like to talk tough, just like conservatives, so they do it by bashing harmless behavior. Pretty funny, I think.