Reduce, reuse, recycle. It’s last for a reason.

You mean “Gun Manufacturing” (Mechanical Engineering), “Bunker Building” (Civil Engineering), “Things Hitting Things” (Physics), “Explosives, Toxins, and Poisons” (Industrial Chemistry), “DIY Alternative Medicine” (Pharmaceutical Chemistry), “Owning the Libs” (Law), “Ripping off the IRS” (Taxation and Accounting), “How to be Offensive” (Language theory, reading/writing comprehension), “How to win at Gambling” (Mathematics, Statistics) “Why Libs Think Like Pussies” (Philosophy), “War” (Geography, Geo-politics, International Studies).

And vaccines can be “immunity guns”. Want to keep your kids safe? Give their immune system guns!

What I feel isn’t existential dread of my pending non-existance. What I feel is FOMO.

I see your problem.

You don’t believe people when they tell you who they are. You imagine their actions and their beliefs to be separate from the individual even though they are the beliefs and actions of the individual. Your idealism doesn’t reflect reality.

apologist
/əˈpɒlədʒɪst/
noun
a person who offers an argument in defence of something controversial.
‘critics said he was an apologist for colonialism’
synonyms: defender, supporter, upholder, advocate, proponent, exponent, propagandist, apostle, champion, backer, promoter, campaigner, spokesman, spokeswoman, spokesperson, speaker, arguer, enthusiast

A worldview that is incompatible with the cooperation of society. If you want to go play apologist for a bigot you might as well be one.

The real bigots don’t see past their prejudices, that’s why they’re bigots.

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the limitlessness of human belligerence.

This isn’t an argument, it’s a fact. The only way to not be part of the social contract is to remove yourself from society, including all of societies infrastructure. You are obligated to support and work within the rules of the society you are a part of. If you object on moral reasons then you can make your attempts to change your society or which society you are part of through whatever means you have access to.

You were never apart from society so you are bound by the social contract by default, failure to uphold the social contract will result in the following violence: being put in the corner, being told ‘no’, spanking, detention, suspension, loss of employment, physical violence, police arrest, incarceration, garnishing of wages, loss of access to social services, etc.

Disingenuous

You don’t seem to be in a state of mind for willing absorbtion of information.

You’re that person coming last in the race who shouts at the person in first place who’s about to lap you, 'Keep up, honey!"

It’s like you can’t read, let alone comprehend context and nuance, and then you call everyone else an idiot because you’re too slow to keep up. Keep up sunshine, what you’re pushing for is what we already intuit as bare minimum.

Everyone else gets it, why can’t you? You’re in charge of your own education.

I did say what I mean, your lack of comprehension and inability to ask clarifying questions is a you problem.

Except we do because I am one. Reusable bag using government responsibility pusher right here. So instead of being disingenuously belligerent, check your ego at the recycling center. Oh wait, they haven’t built one.

And those that argue for corporate and government responsibility do the things you are referring to, with the addition that they are smart enough to recognise personal responsibility isn’t enough and isn’t possible at scale without systemic change.

It’s not that you’re wrong, it’s that you’re wasting your breath preaching to a choir that has additional comprehension.

Bruh have you heard of packaging? Go buy a packet of chips in something that isn’t plastic, good luck purchasing those and toting them out in your reusable bag with that handful of sour cream, and pocket full of frozen peas.

And those that argue for corporate and government responsibility do too, with the addition that they are smart enough to recognise personal responsibility isn’t enough and isn’t possible at scale without systemic change.

It’s not that you’re wrong, it’s that you’re wasting your breath preaching to a choir that has additional comprehension.