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I AM A BAD PERSON!

2011-06-03 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Science & nature · reflection essay

Lower-confidence wave

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Hank, responding to the Evil Baby Orphanage discussion, says he wants to know what makes a good person; he admits he still eats meat though it is environmentally bad, mocks the USDA's new protein-heavy plate, and asks Nerdfighters to go a little vegetarian in June.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting from Venice, Florida, after John's video from Venice, Italy

  • ★ Hank films from the canals of Venice, Florida, an unplanned echo of John's last video from Venice, Italy. — 00:00:01

00:00:09 — The George Washington / Evil Baby Orphanage discussion; what makes a good person

  • ★★ Hank says the discussion of whether George Washington was an evil person spread across Nerdfighteria, on Your Pants and in the comments. — 00:00:09 · Nerdfighteria, Your Pants
  • ★★ Hank likes that a Nerdfighter on Your Pants proposed listing criteria for entry to the Evil Baby Orphanage, and that most discussion focused on intent. — 00:00:21 · Evil Baby Orphanage, Your Pants
  • ★★★ Hank doubts that wanting to be good makes one good: he knows he isn't a bad person but not that he is a good one, so he wants criteria for being good. (hedged) — 00:00:35
  • ★★ Citing Sirius Black via a commenter, Hank agrees the world can't be split into good people and Death Eaters; it is more complicated. — 00:00:41

00:01:01 — Eating meat is still objectively bad; Hank still eats it; GOOD magazine's meat-free June

  • ★★★ Hank says eating meat is still objectively bad, as he argued on this same dock a couple of years ago. — 00:01:01
  • ★★ Hank says meat production still accounts for about as much greenhouse gas as the transportation sector, driving included. — 00:01:05
  • ★★ Hank says that if the edible food fed to livestock in the US went to people instead, no one in the world would be hungry. — 00:01:14 · United States
    • number check: no one in the world would be hungry — doubtful
  • ★★ Hank admits he still eats meat, knowing it is bad, because he likes it. — 00:01:21
  • ★★ GOOD magazine challenges readers to skip meat in June; Hank thinks he'll try, though not fully, since he must eat what his in-laws serve. (hedged) — 00:01:27

00:01:47 — Lab-grown meat as a technological solution

  • ★★ Hank is excited by technological fixes such as scientists growing meat in a laboratory more efficiently and without animal suffering. — 00:01:47
  • ★★ People find lab-grown meat gross, but Hank says nothing is grosser than the way we currently produce food. (playful) — 00:01:54

00:02:08 — The USDA's new plate and its protein section

  • ★★ Hank says the US just replaced the food pyramid with a plate: half vegetables and fruits, half protein and grains. — 00:02:08 · United States
  • ★★ Hank finds the protein section absurd since vegetables and grains have plenty of protein; he blames the USDA, not the health department, and a meat-reliant farm industry. — 00:02:17
  • ★★ Hank calls obesity the number one health problem in America right now, which makes USDA control of diet advice disturbing. — 00:02:34 · United States

00:02:44 — Ask: go a little vegetarian this month; Evil Baby Orphanage joke; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank asks Nerdfighters to go a little vegetarian this month, perhaps meat-free at lunch or meat only on weekends. — 00:02:44 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank says giving up this one indulgence makes you a little better as a person, lowering your odds of being sent to the Evil Baby Orphanage as a baby. (playful) — 00:02:51 · Evil Baby Orphanage

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