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The world doesn't run on fallacies. It runs on human attention. If everyone is sharing and posting about one thing then they aren't sharing and posting about another. There's only so much time in a day
But you said there was a presupposition to recycling INSTEAD of reuse. They aren’t exclusive. You can rightly say “I wish we talked more about reduction instead of recycling” but there was no presupposition.
When did this all or nothing way of thinking start in American culture? Has it always been like this and I'm just now noticing it, or is it much more prevalent now because it's a side effect of a lack of critical thinking skills