• Being 'green' makes you mean?
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Buying green may help save the planet, but a new study suggests it might also make you more prone to cheat, steal, and be selfish. The study, said Mazar, an assistant professor of marketing with the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, builds on research into the idea of “moral regulation” — that people either consciously or unconsciously balance bad deeds with good ones. [url]http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/12/20/12220926-cp.html[/url] Another stellar study
I always just thought it made you smug. :smug:
This is racist against green people
Blue, yellow, pink. Green? It's all same to me.
Interesting. Their basic point seems to be that we've attached this moral value to buying green stuff, and the rush of self-satisfaction people get from buying it is displacing the altruistic behavior we otherwise would use to get that same satisfaction. Maybe people wouldn't be so fuckin smug if the green products sold themselves on being a basic responsibility to the preservation of the planet, instead of trying to convince people they're better than everyone else for spending money on Product A instead of Product B.
Buying green just makes me high..
Its not easy being green.
Hulk smash!
Balance deeds? PfpFPfpfFP, any idiot who thinks you can balance Deeds has played too much Fallout 3. In real life, you can't just blow up a town and then fix everything by giving a homeless man some clean water. It just doesn't work out that way. On a serious note, I'm not one who is "Green"; But, I would like to see more cars with better mileage and less carbon emissions. I'd also like to see ways to deal with the greenhouse gases. And less god damn South Americans letting their rain-forests get destroyed. Seriously, the worst thing next to that is any stupid South Americans thinking that cutting down acres and acres of beautiful rain-forests for their crumby bean crops is a good thing. It isn't because the crops won't even last a few years whereas the rain-forest will last centuries beyond that.
Reminds me of that smug cloud episode of south park...
:crying: <- Mean
Simply "buying green" isn't really a "good moral act" if one simply do it for mere appearances or to "feel good" because of immoral acts that oneself has committed. To know the reason why, how and what the green product will do and save, and continuously use it for that purpose, with out letting more than the necessary number of people know about it, would be a moral action. Thinking "oh, this will save the planet :buddy: " is not really a moral action in my eyes unless you know just how the product one is purchasing will actually help "save" the planet, and use it to its fullest extent.
It depends on what green it is.
[IMG]http://www.laprensatoledo.com/Stories/2007/121207/Grinch.jpg[/IMG]
What's funny is that, most of the time, the green option actually does more environmental damage. Hybrid cars absolutely slaughter the environment just in the production and transport of the battery pack alone, doing more damage than huge, hulking SUVs such as H2's and Land Rovers. Not only that but they still burn gasoline, and if I'm right in my observations of how the filthy little things are driven in the real world, just as much as if they weren't a hybrid at all. To put the icing on the cake, they also contribute to, potentially anyways, one more vehicle rusting away in a junkyard. They certainly contribute to one more new car being made and one more perfectly good old one rusting away on a used lot. Plugin cars just replace tailpipe CO2 emissions with power station CO2 emissions, as well as having either shit range, shit performance, or both, and the batteries are just as nasty as the ones for the hybrid cars. Florescent light bulbs have mercury in them(OOPS), making them an environmental hazard worse than the incandescent ones they replace, and LEDs are bloody expensive(You waste more green by going green...). You'd have to be an ass to buy any of this green crap in the first place, no wonder people buying it are asses.
[QUOTE=TestECull;19121926]What's funny is that, most of the time, the green option actually does more environmental damage. Hybrid cars absolutely slaughter the environment just in the production and transport of the battery pack alone, doing more damage than huge, hulking SUVs such as H2's and Land Rovers. Not only that but they still burn gasoline, and if I'm right in my observations of how the filthy little things are driven in the real world, just as much as if they weren't a hybrid at all. To put the icing on the cake, they also contribute to, potentially anyways, one more vehicle rusting away in a junkyard. They certainly contribute to one more new car being made and one more perfectly good old one rusting away on a used lot. Plugin cars just replace tailpipe CO2 emissions with power station CO2 emissions, as well as having either shit range, shit performance, or both, and the batteries are just as nasty as the ones for the hybrid cars. Florescent light bulbs have mercury in them(OOPS), making them an environmental hazard worse than the incandescent ones they replace, and LEDs are bloody expensive(You waste more green by going green...). You'd have to be an ass to buy any of this green crap in the first place, no wonder people buying it are asses.[/QUOTE] you provide absolutely no sources for your argument, and even if what you're saying is true, it wouldn't be a reason to look down on people who try to be environmentally friendly and talk about them as if they're trash
I think his point is that products being marketed as green aren't really as green as you take them granted for. or maybe you are just a persistent troll perhaps.
[QUOTE=Chopstick;19122004]I think his point is that products being marketed as green aren't really as green as you take them granted for. or maybe you are just a persistent troll perhaps.[/QUOTE] no, his point is that trying to make environmentally-friendly purchasing decisions somehow automatically makes you an asshole to be looked down upon [QUOTE=TestECull;19121926] You'd have to be an ass to buy any of this green crap in the first place, no wonder people buying it are asses.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Sigma-Lambda;19122034]no, his point is that trying to make environmentally-friendly purchasing decisions somehow automatically makes you an asshole to be looked down upon[/QUOTE] Chopstick's first thought was right. [QUOTE=Chopstick;19122004]I think his point is that products being marketed as green aren't really as green as you take them granted for.[/QUOTE] The people who are truly green are the ones that don't buy all of this green-labelled crap, instead they use and reuse what they already have/know works in a manner that reduces their environmental impact. The people buying the green crap are assses, the people who genuinely care about the environment are not. And anyways, even if I do think they're an ass, I still don't look down upon them like I'm any better. I can be a bit of an ass too. I'm certainly not endorsing looking down on them.
[QUOTE=DireAvenger;19120406][IMG]http://www.laprensatoledo.com/Stories/2007/121207/Grinch.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Nyehheheheheheheeheheheahahahhhaaaaa!!
It just makes me rage.
Green and Mean, WAAAGH! [img]http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs34/i/2008/299/2/f/Ork_Warboss_by_robertharutos.jpg[/img]
Good thing I don't give a shit about being Green and buy whatever the hell I want.
[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;19122379]Green and Mean, WAAAGH! [img]http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs34/i/2008/299/2/f/Ork_Warboss_by_robertharutos.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Mean, green, assraping machine.
I gave everyone agrees because it's green.
People who buy green? What the shit?
[QUOTE=hogstr;19101630] a new study suggests it might also make you more prone to cheat, steal, and be selfish.[/QUOTE] Really, I thought it just made you easily fooled. :rimshot:
So I guess we know why Joe Greene was mean after all. [img]http://www.skylinepictures.com/Longordo_Pittsburgh_p109_large.jpg[/img]
It's not easy being green.
Fuck that shit, black is the new green which was the new black.
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