Chris Williamson

Yeah, you're fucked.

Wow.

If that's not a justification for just living your life and getting the fuck on with it and not coloring the Venice Canal green, I don't know what is.

Well, it's the thing that gets you attention, unfortunately.

That's really what all this is about.

You know, send her back to Israel.

They'll give her attention.

They gave her some great attention.

I'm kind of obsessed with this idea of toxic compassion, which I think is what you're talking about.

Yeah.

So the prioritization of like short term emotional comfort.

over everything else.

And I remember Elon was talking a couple of years ago, someone had accused him of contributing to climate change and so on and so forth.

And he says, I think I've done more to reduce climate change than any other human on the planet.

That if you look at the EV revolution being started by Tesla, plus everything else from a technology perspective that we're doing,

I think that there's an argument to be made that I've had a more positive impact on the future of the climate than any other human.

He said, what I'm interested in is the reality of doing good, not appearing good and not appearing to do good while doing bad.

And this, the opportunity people have to be able to look like they're doing good while not doing it is exactly where this toxic compassion thing leaks in.

So, for instance, people will proclaim that body weight has no impact on health over a long duration, even if this causes overweight individuals to not take their health as seriously and literally die sooner.

Right.