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Environmental activists target Montreal airport for third consecutive day (montreal.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (11 children)

From a recent ruling in the UK.

“I acknowledge that at least some of the concerns motivating you are, at least to some extent, shared by many,” he said.

“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. You have appointed yourselves as the sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change, bound neither by the principles of democracy nor the rule of law.

“And your fanaticism makes you entirely heedless of the rights of your fellow citizens. You have taken it upon yourselves to decide that your fellow citizens must suffer disruption and harm, and how much disruption and harm they must suffer, simply so that you may parade your views.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

guy needs to look up the meaning of the word "sole"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Sole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

congratulations?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What did you think he got wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

dude. how many protesters and defendants are we talking about? is it more than one?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

you

/yo͞o,yə/

pronoun

used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing.

"are you listening?"

He was referring to them collectively. In English, "you" can refer to one person or a group of people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yeah that's not the word we were talking about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. You have appointed yourselves as the sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change, bound neither by the principles of democracy nor the rule of law.

YOU have appointed yourselves as the SOLE arbiters of...

YOU is collection. The collective have appointed themselves the sole arbiters of...

Do you understand now?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes the harm of being delayed a coupled minutes while siting in a nice climate controled vehicle that has comfy seats and an entertainment system.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Have you ever been to the Montreal airport? 45 minutes to drive the loop is normal without protesters. It took hours with the protesters. What if someone missed a flight and didn't get to the hospital to see their dying patent or child for the last time? What if someone missed a court appearance and ended up in prison? There are so many reasons that this protest could cause real, lasting harm to the people who are, "inconvenienced". I think that the judges words, voices on the ruling where he sentenced the people to two and the hearts in prison for the same sort of protest, really last it out perfectly well. Your comment and the protesters are utterly tone deaf.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Okay, lets just keep burning fuel until all of us are harmed by earth's wrath. Will you show the same sympathy to flood and wildfire victims? Those events are going to happen more frequently if we do not bring an end to climate change. Many currently inhabited places may become too hot or too dry to survive.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I've been an environmental activist and protester since the 1970s. I live in a straw bale house that I built with my own two hands and the hands of my family and around 40 volunteers 20 years ago. It has a carbon footprint 80% lower then our neigbors much smaller house. I've taught more than 1,000 building officials how to inspect straw bale houses and intervened in over 100 disputes between people wanting straw bale houses and their building officials with a 100% success rate. I have contributed to the reduction of carbon emissions in a very personal and direct way that these fanatics can only dream about in their wettest circle jerk fantasies.

Don't lecture me, child.

The mistake that these people are making, and that you are making, is the same mistake that ALL extramists make. All extremists believe that they are somehow absolutely superior to everyone else. That superiority may be genetic, racial, religious, sexual, political, ethical, moral, dietary, or any of many other factors. They believe that that absolute superiority justifies anything that they do to anyone who doesn't share that absolute superiorty. They can self-absolve any transgressing or crime because their goals are pure and the people they are harming are not.

They are wrong and you are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will huff, I will puff, I will blow down your straw bale house.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (5 children)

We tell kids, when we talk about straw bale houses, that the fourth pig combined all three of the systems that the first three used, straw for insulation and structural integrity, wood for headers, window framing, and interior walls, and cement (Portland lime) for load bearing skins and fire resistance.

Our walls are 10 times as strong as a 2x6 wall in a vertical load, 6 times as strong in a vertical load, have a 2 hour commercial fire rating, a Catgory 5 missile penetration rating (a 2x4 fired at Categort 5 hurricane speed will not penetrate the wall, and an isolated section R value of 70 with a system R value of 40.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The mistake that these people are making, and that you are making, is the same mistake that ALL extramists make. All extremists believe that they are somehow absolutely superior to everyone else.

Meanwhile, you're calling people children and acting superior to everyone else.

I'm glad you live in a low-carbon house. Congratulations. Assuming you 80% number is accurate, and applying it to your entire lifetime for all activities, you will save approximately 100 miles of airline travel worth of CO2, assuming your usage is similar to an average American. Great. That's effectively nothing.

We have to change systems to actually have an impact, not just our own habits. Reducing your output is great and I appreciate it, but stopping there means you have done nothing. We need to stop industries that emit CO2. Average people have very little effect, but their votes and power can change the things that do.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, you’re calling people children and acting superior to everyone else.

They are acting like petulant children. I have never once said that I was superior to anyone. Not a single time. Never. (Go ahead and try to find an instance where I did. You're mistaking my saying that they/you are not superior for me being superior. They are NOT the same thing.) What I said was that THEY were mistaken about being absolutely morally superior. They are. It is the mistake that all extremists make.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, you didn't say you're superior. You acted like you were superior. Do you not see how calling other people children is implying they're beneath you? If you don't then you're lost. Of course you only recognize when some "other" is doing something wrong but not yourself.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, you didn’t say you’re superior.

No, I didn't.

You acted like you were superior.

No, I didn't.

I treated them like petulant children who were showing incredible disrespect for the people they were harming then salf-absolving themselves.

Do you not see how calling other people children is implying they’re beneath you?

No, I implied that they were acting like petulant children instead of treating everyone including me with respect. You have to give respect to get respect. Inconveniencing thousands of people so that you can have a moral superiority circle jerk is disrespectful.

If you don’t then you’re lost.

I'm still here, in the real world where you have to treat people with respect to get respect.

Of course you only recognize when some “other” is doing something wrong but not yourself.

I have Asperger's. I am accutely aware when I am doing something wrong. I am treating them like petulant children because they were and are acting like petulant children. I will show them exactly the same respect that they show to everyone else. When they stop acting like petulant children I will stop treating them like petulant children. I didn't start any of this. They did with their actions. You can't winge about how someone reacts to your being a disrespectful petulant child when you're being a disrespectful petualant child.

So...unless you're ready to stop pissing and moaning about me telling someone who was being a petulant child that they are being a petulant child you are lost and we're done here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, I implied that they were acting like petulant children instead of treating everyone including me with respect. You have to give respect to get respect.

OK, so first respect is earned, not given. You don't get to be respected just because you think you should be.

Second, you were not giving them respect. If you want them to respect you then you should be respecting them first, based on your own logic. Calling them children is not doing this, therefore you don't get to be respected.

I have Asperger's. I am accutely aware when I am doing something wrong.

You clearly do not recognize when you're doing something wrong. The Aspergers diagnosis makes things make sense, but it still isn't an excuse. If you're calling people children that is implying you're an "elder" and above them. It is implying a position of superiority. Either it's wrong to do this, like you said, and what you are doing is wrong or it isn't wrong to do this and your stance on the subject is wrong. One of these must be true. Your behavior is hypocritical to what you're saying. It doesn't matter who started what. That's childish to just point fingers and say "but they started it!"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No, I implied that they were acting like petulant children instead of treating everyone including me with respect. You have to give respect to get respect.

OK, so first respect is earned, not given. You don’t get to be respected just because you think you should be.

That's bullshit and that's the root of your misunderstanding.

You owe EVERYONE you deal with respect. It's the golden rule in virtually every religion and every child is taught it. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

Were I to run into any one of these people not glued to the road I would treat them with the same respect that I treat everyone else. I was raised properly by my parents.

They have earned being treated like petulant children because they are acting like petulant children.

You earn BACK respect once you've lost it. They lost it by acting like petulant children.

Second, you were not giving them respect. If you want them to respect you then you should be respecting them first, based on your own logic. Calling them children is not doing this, therefore you don’t get to be respected.

My first interaction with them was them acting like petulant children so I responded appropriately.

It's like commiting a crime then crying about being treated like a criminal. You don't do A then B doesn't happen. You don't get to winge about the fact that B happened when you did A. This is a VERY simple concept.

I have Asperger’s. I am accutely aware when I am doing something wrong.

You clearly do not recognize when you’re doing something wrong. The Aspergers diagnosis makes things make sense, but it still isn’t an excuse. If you’re calling people children that is implying you’re an “elder” and above them.

I've been very clear. They acted like children so they were treated like children. Had they not acted like children I would have treated them like adults. Why can't you understand this?

It is implying a position of superiority.

It's not implying anything. It's making VERY clear that they are acting like children and that I am treating them like children. There is no hidden message. I've been VERY clear about this all along.

Either it’s wrong to do this, like you said, and what you are doing is wrong or it isn’t wrong to do this and your stance on the subject is wrong.

That's false logic.

They did A and I reacted like they did A and did B. The way to solve this issue is for them not to have done A so that I wouldn't have treated them like they did A and done B. If A hadn't happened B wouldn't have happened.

Stop whinging about the response and start dealing with the cause. Act like adults if you want to be treated like adults. It's VERY simple.

OYour behavior is hypocritical to what you’re saying.

No, it isn't. I've been very clear. They acted like children and got treated like children. If they stop acting like children I will stop treating them like they're acting like children.

It doesn’t matter who started what.

THERE it is. THAT is the root of your entire argument. We don't like being treated like children because we acted like children so ignore the fact that we're acting like children and treat us like adults.

No.

That’s childish to just point fingers and say “but they started it!”

STOP POINTING OUT THAT WE'RE ACTING LIKE CHILDREN!

No.

There is literally nothing that you can say other than correcting the ORIGINAL issue to change this situation. I don't like the way you're treating us for acting like children is not going to solve the problem. Grow up, put on your big boy/girl/they pants, and start acting like a adults and people will treat you like adults.

We're done here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Grow up, put on your big boy/girl/they pants, and start acting like an adult and people will treat you like adults.

There you go again. I haven't called you names at all, and now you're saying I'm immature and you're better. You keep acting superior and keep saying that's wrong to do. Whatever. You aren't going to see the error.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Whatever you have to tell yourself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's cool that you're in the well-insulated house business. But we're still cooking the planet and jet aircraft are bad.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What an absolutely tone deaf and patronizing statement. The world is ending but god forbid we inconvenience anyone while trying to do something about it.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Read it again. You are NOT morally superior. The three people he was writing about are now spending 2, 2, and 3 years in prison because they mistakenly believe that they are absolutely morally superior and that that absolute moral superiority justifies anything that they do to anyone they see as inferior. This is the same mistake that every extremist makes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it's safe to say that if they gave up their freedom for the cause of trying to save us and our descendants from climate catastrophe then they are absolutely morally superior to both of us. The mistake you make is thinking that the law has a single thing to do with moral superiority, it only deals in financial superiority.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (7 children)

That's an interesting point but I disagree. They treated thousands other people with utter contempt. That is not the act of someone who is morally superior. It's absolutely disqualifying.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

No, no you misunderstand. Let me translate:

"Die in a hole you filthy peasant. Your life is expendable and you won't be missed when the police gun you down in the climate riots 20 years from now."

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was actually going to the airport yesterday, and was wondering why the otherwise 30 minute drive took over an hour, with the lineups already reaching the hwy exit. I was explaining to my relative, that see, Montreal has such little foresight, they couldn't build a train to reach the airport in fifty years, unlike Toronto and their Union-Pearson express, which makes YYZ a superior departure point.

Little did I know that this was a sit-in by activists. And the First Nation & Eco activists do this stuff in Toronto all the time. As in block the UP / CN lines, so it's not like that would be exempt from delays either.

All the power to them mind you. I'm just trying to highlight my smugness and bias towards Toronto transit interconnectedness.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Nearly every other developed country on the planet has rail connecting their major airports. It just makes sense. Of course i didn't bring my personal car with me on the flight. The train is often cheaper than a taxi too.

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