Feel free to start living by your own ethics.
If the value of life is infinite and we should devote as much resources as possible to keeping people alive, feel free to stop "insanely" squandering your money on the "destructive" pursuits of our capitalist system.
All you need to spend money on is basics like food, water, shelter, clothing and transport so that you can continue to work and produce income to use to help keep people alive.
There are plenty of children quite literally starving to death right now who would greatly appreciate it if you cut back on any luxuries you enjoy and instead gave the money to them to buy food and get clean water and medicine.
Surely any luxury you treat yourself to is an absolute waste of resources that could better be used to help those whose lives are in real jeopardy. Why are you wasting time on this forum instead of out working a second job to help the poor?
Obviously at some point you do value certain things more than human life, we all do. Until you pious cunts start living by your own idealistic, nonsensical ethics how about you shut the fuck up.
I see you've arrived at a place a few thousand miles away from my point.
That being that Western culture (I suppose you could include many modern Asiatic nations as well) puts the status quo, the preservation of economic growth and the capitalist system ahead of the entire reality of existence.
This has little argumental bearing on me getting a second job so I can send more money to children in the Third World.
What is 'idealistic' and 'nonsensical' is thinking that current standards of living enjoyed by those in the First World can be maintained (let alone spread to those less materially well off) without irreversible and unacceptable damage to the
real (i.e. ecological) systems that support human existence.
And for your big fat information Bradley, I have started taking a number of lifestyle decisions that support my ethics.
ITT: loquasagacious makes a brilliant post explaining the fallacy of the life is sacred argument. Everyone ignores it and throws in their two cents, going on precisely the same sentimental, emotionally charged rant he had already discredited, totally ignoring his challenge to explain their position.
If louquasagacious gets overly upset by people chucking in their two cents worth and ignoring the OP, then I'm sure he would have stopped posting years ago, as it invariably occurs on every single thread in NCAP.