Justin Ohms
2 min readSep 8, 2024

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You completely miss the point, as does everyone who thinks that individual lifestyle changes like this are going to impact anything beyond an individual's own life. That is why these are not solutions to anything.

I can prove you are delusional; just in this one response, two paragraphs, 173 words, you expose your own delusion. It's very simple. You freely admit that "People won't change," yet you still try to present these ideas as "a VITAL and NECESSARY solution." These two things cannot both be true. If people will not adopt these practices, then they are not solutions. You know it. Those quotes are from you. I didn't put words in your mouth. You said those things.

Delusion is characterized by holding to false beliefs or judgments about external reality despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. That is the definition of delusion. You have a false belief that lifestyle changes are a solution. However, you even admit to the incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, and yet, you still hold to that false belief. That is, by definition, delusion.

You may not be delusional enough to believe people will adopt these changes, but you are still delusional enough to present them as solutions. The problem is clear: since people are unwilling to make these changes, they cannot be considered solutions. To believe otherwise is delusional and illusory.

You ask what solutions I think are more practical, but that exposes the fundamental difference between your ilk and those of us who are grounded in reality. I don't pretend to have solutions, magic wands or otherwise, to the world's problems. I take the world as it is and the people in it as they are, as they exist and behave in reality. I don't take my personal choices or agenda and try to wrap that up into an impractical "solution" to a problem in order to spread that agenda using fear and paranoia.

If we are going to collectively find solutions or adapt to any given problem, we first have to be grounded in reality. We have to know and accept the truth of what is and is not possible. From there, we can discover ideas that will affect real change in the real world or allow us to adapt to a changing world. We need to reject fictional and impractical ideas so we don't waste time on them. People who persist in continually putting forth ideas known to be impractical and unworkable are no better than those who "pray" to an almighty deity to fix their problems. Both do nothing but make the individual feel better about themselves and push back their personal existential dread. While that might be harmless on the individual level, the real harm comes because these people get in the way of real progress by distracting everyone else with fantasy and delusion.

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