Say No to Climate Change - Black Lives Matter - Science is Real

Aside from the lack of scientific research regarding COVID-19 and especially the use of random face coverings, the bigger question is not if it will save lives or not, the question is if the action is justifiable.

The debate over life and liberty is a valid debate that we, as a society, have been struggling with for hundreds of years. The answer is not clear and using emotional appeals and fallacies of logic does not help the discussion all.

First, it was "global warming deniers" then "climate change deniers," now simply "science deniers?"

People use these terms, loaded terms, in order to promote political ideologies and agendas associated with the terms. 

Everyone knows the climate changes; everyone accepts "the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment."

Tossing the word "science" around is not a substitute for an argument.

If science could prove your premise, masks save lives; it would not validate your rationale that people should wear them.

A lot of simple actions could save lives, but saving lives at what cost, at the expense of liberty?

Prefacing a political policy discussion with "Climate Change" is like using the title "Black Lives Matter," ends the discussion before it can even start. If someone disagrees with ideological political ideas, you have cloaked behind BLM then they are a racist. If someone disagrees or questions your conclusions regarding the impacts human behavior has on the climate and how much of that behavior can be altered to impact the climate, you call them "climate change deniers."

If you want to have an intellectually honest discussion, you can't start the conversation with loaded terms intended to make people who disagree with your conclusion look stupid, it's a logical fallacy.

How about I flip the premise. Your liberty is more important to me than my life.

Funny, when it is framed that way, I don't sound nearly as selfish. It's all about framing and manipulation instead of serious intellectual discussion and reason.

 

Black lives do matter, and there are few people I cannot and will not tolerate, racists, are among them. The term Black Lives Matter has nothing to do with race or ethnicity to me or anyone else who objects to the political ideologies associated with the term.

That doesn't make me a racist, that makes me someone who rejects a loaded term intended to associate me with supporting a political ideology I do not support.

Global warming is happening, and climate change is real. In fact, humans do play some role in climate change, and we should have discussions about the extent human behavior plays.

No one denies that the climate changes, we just need to have a conversation on the degree. (No pun intended.)

Science is real. No one has argued otherwise that I am aware of. This is one of the dumbest statements I have ever heard. As if to believe that science can equate to public policy.

Data does not create policy; it can be a tool in determining public policy. All policy is political and must weigh many factors, including life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.