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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (76 children)

From a recent ruling in the UK.

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

β€œBut 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.

β€œAnd 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.”

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (13 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.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca -5 points 3 months ago (11 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.

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