Well, I think all of them are dumb, including me. I'm not going to finger point at you specifically and call you dumb because that is rude (unfortunately yes, my subtext is). I'd say half of my choices are dumb, and yes when we find that most of the time people are making dumb choices that put humanity in a worse and worse situation, maybe it's time to drop in some laws to slow that down.
I mean go and look at the other HN thread on 100K US deaths per year on plastic. I mean I bought plastic today and highly likely will do so again tomorrow.
I might recommend taking a step back and re-examining this stance and considering the possibility that there are people who disagree with your stance because they hold different opinions and values, not just because they’re dumb.
No, they're definitely dumb just like you and I are definitely dumb in the sense that we are terrible making decisions which are holistic on a longer timescale. We evolved to be dumb at these things but not being dumb is what we need right now so we need to exert power downstream to stop us from our temptations to make our dumb decisions in the heat of the moment like oh god I'll just use Facebook so I can buy this stupid thing on Marketplace even though participation in Facebook net harms humanity.
I mean go and look at the other HN thread on 100K US deaths per year on plastic. I mean I bought plastic today and highly likely will do so again tomorrow.