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I consumed this article and yet it still exists, unchanged, so I don’t think this swap has any real epistemological effect beyond diluting “destroy.”

No, you read this article. Reading is a non destructive act.

Consuming is also not always destroying things, like in eating, it merely changes food into fertilizer and minerals when you poop.

I think naming things in an absolute way will not help us, just like forbidding things wont, we have to learn to change behavior instead of stopping behavior.

Yeah, basically.

If you work in mining, one has a lot of opportunities to consider the ethics of the beast we live within.

Consumption, or however you want to connote it, is easy... production is difficult. That's what needs to be incentivized.

Hear 'Consume', Think 'Ravage'