You keep ping ponging between this nirvana fallacy argument and a straw man argument to justify doing nothing.

So far you have argued against stopping anything because

A) it's unreasonable to ask for 100% cessation and you imply that 100% or 0% are the only options B) you assume China will never stop C) you apparently believe that you should only do what's right when everyone else is already doing it.

You assume, and I think incorrectly, that taking decisive climate action will be too Britain's detriment. You seem to forget that an oil dependency is a military liability as well as an economic liability, and where most of the oil in the world comes from.

If you can't think of a way in which the rest of the world can pressure China to take action, you lack imagination.

The protesters are related to the amount of traffic stuck on the road. But they aren't related to the drivers poor ability to let emergency vehicles through. They should all leave enough room for them to pass, just like the protesters did in one of your sources. Some protestors are acting irresponsibly I agree.

Wait, every time we finish reading the article she dies again?

When you say Homeopathic are you referring to any study?

Peaceful has nothing to do with disruptive though. Disruptive is literally the point of a protest. If its not disruptive it isn't a protest.

People standing on footpaths/roads with signs: disrupting pedestrians/traffic.

Boycotting a company: disrupting sales.

Standing outside a building chanting: disrupting people's access to employment or generally being noisy and disrupting their work.

Do you really think the protests are unrelated to the amount of traffic on the road? And that the amount of traffic is unrelated to delaying emergency vehicles?

And yeah, protesters are acting irresponsibly. That's my whole point.

Source 1 was definitely irresponsible of the protestors. Glueing yourself to something on the road is very irresponsible. Even if they didn't mean to delay the fire engine they are in the wrong.

In source 3 it paints the picture that the protestors were blocking emergency services, but the last part of the article shows the fire engine made it through, and still made it to where it needed to go within 14 minutes. The reversing ambulance appears to be reversing to face the protestors. Either it's going to ram through them, or maybe there is room for the ambulance to go through?

Source 3 shows the ambulance struggling to get through traffic. I don't know the layout of the roads but again it doesn't look like the protestors are blocking the road and stopping the ambulance from getting through, it's the amount of traffic in the way stopping the ambulance. Again though, people glueing themselves to the road is unacceptable.

Source 4 is a very weird source. The protests may or may not have contributed to the amount of traffic (I honestly have no idea, but for the sake of the argument, I'll agree that they did). The two people had their car hit after being in standstill traffic for four hours. That is not the result of the protests, that's just the result of a criminal driver. The 40 minutes for the ambulance to get there is very high, but it doesn't say how long the ambulance should have taken on a regular day, so maybe it's not much higher?

Unfortunately the peaceful protests never make the news. It’s only the thugs that destroy and loot that you see on the news.

I do, in fact.

Source 1

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And the protests contributed to the deaths of 2 people.

Do you have any evidence or links to articles that say these protesters stopped emergency vehicles from passing? Or are you just grumpy that these people blocked the roads for regular cars for a while?

Like... waiting for the police to show up and remove them?

They were not trying to injure or kill the drivers. I agree that it might have injured or killed drivers/race staff but I do not think those protestors had any thought about how dangerous it would be for others if they entered the track. They are idiots that would have thought they would shut the race down. Nowhere in that article does it say they entered the race track with intent to kill or injure, only that their actions could have harmed people.

I don't agree with the actions of those protestors and believe they should be prosecuted but they were not trying to injure or kill people like you say.

Yes. I don't know if you know this but most people have functional legs and can walk. Those that don't will have another way of moving out of the way for emergency services...

Y'all out here really forgetting the target demographic is for children.....

What a mistake. 😂

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The title is inherently misleading and false, since analyzing genetic data is not a "breakthrough" in "treatment." And if there is a true, accurate, way of stating whatever the breakthrough is (if any, which is dubious), then the title should be stated differently.

Because of the nature of this sub we often get Uplifting Distortions, and Rushing To Misunderstandings because the misunderstanding is pleasant for the person doing the misunderstanding. And then we have the automoderator warning saying the place is supposed to be free from negativity. Negativity exists by definition in opposition to false misguided distorted positivity, in other words, negativity is the correct response to oblivious viral lies. A bit like a debate sub saying they don't welcome counterpoints. I'd say we're due for a discussion on the difference between "feeling negative because you don't LIKE the truth" and "negative comment in the face of lies", and also the difference between negativity and toxicity. Excessive positivity is much more dangerous.

Seems like big data branding: Step 1) collect data (in this case genetic) that doesn't practically accomplish anything 2) claim it's a breakthrough 3) Profit.

This comment is a trap. Nobody respond.

Lately it's kind of a mess here with the reform, but before that I think it is possible

Way to miss the point.

But if you don’t understand that skills differ between sports and that athleticism enhances them then there’s not much I can do to help.

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India is still a shithole but one which is improving at a staggering rate

Doing God's work

I'm not saying I disagree with you. But coming off so absolute and aggressive with your responses to people is exactly why others are so quick to discount what you say.

You think being a good athlete automatically means you can find a striker's head with a cross? Man, you should tell the Olympic decathletes that, because they're leaving hundreds of millions of dollars on the table!