I have nothing against having fun. But there is a moral difference between having fun playing video games, and having fun spending the (money equivalent of 100 saved lives) to climb Everest.
Mountain climbing isn’t that expensive, but if consuming large amounts of money on non-EA activities was your real gripe, you would be complaining about the nigh infinite number of things people with disposable incomes of above 50k/y spend their money and time on in general, and not obviously be specifically opposed to mountain climbing. It’s not so you’re not.
It seems like you’ve retreated fully from your bailey:
“at the risk of being the Captain Obvious, I must remind the readers that mountain climbing is stupid”
to your motte:
“There is no greatness in being the 5001th man who climbed Everest”
I suspect most people responding take greater issue with the former position, so maybe if you still stand by it you could defend that one. To me, it seems like the standard of “if it increases your chances of dying, it’s a stupid recreational activity” is one that is unlikely to be applied evenly by just about anyone.
E.G., if you want to apply that consistently, you should probably have a very restrictive diet, and definitely not play video games for moderate to long periods of time (risk of death from blood clots, sedentariness, etc)
Someone here do this template but for pseudorational mountain climbing criticism
I have nothing against having fun. But there is a moral difference between having fun playing video games, and having fun spending the (money equivalent of 100 saved lives) to climb Everest.
Mountain climbing isn’t that expensive, but if consuming large amounts of money on non-EA activities was your real gripe, you would be complaining about the nigh infinite number of things people with disposable incomes of above 50k/y spend their money and time on in general, and not obviously be specifically opposed to mountain climbing. It’s not so you’re not.
It seems like you’ve retreated fully from your bailey:
“at the risk of being the Captain Obvious, I must remind the readers that mountain climbing is stupid”
to your motte:
“There is no greatness in being the 5001th man who climbed Everest”
I suspect most people responding take greater issue with the former position, so maybe if you still stand by it you could defend that one.
To me, it seems like the standard of “if it increases your chances of dying, it’s a stupid recreational activity” is one that is unlikely to be applied evenly by just about anyone.
E.G., if you want to apply that consistently, you should probably have a very restrictive diet, and definitely not play video games for moderate to long periods of time (risk of death from blood clots, sedentariness, etc)