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That's a stretch. I enjoy creature comforts. Hot high flow showers, A/C, a muscle car. My life is better with these features. It's not practical to advocate abstaining from these things.

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What you're really saying is that you don't pay the external costs of these things, and you don't care that anyone else has to either - people in poorer countries who will be affected by new and dangerous weather, or even your own children.

You can say you life is good with these features, but how can you say it's better? How did you compare?

Here's another question. Is practicality the adequate criteria to judge the ethical implication of some behaviour?

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