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In reply to the discussion: I want to leave Florida. It ain't that easy [View all]Kaleva
(36,294 posts)gives me a more accurate picture about how someone feels or thinks about an issue then listening to what they say would.
Actions should at least match the rhetoric.
Your comment:
"I wouldn't tell someone suffering from pneumonia that they shouldn't express their misery because of my cancer diagnosis."
If someone said they were suffering from pneumonia and they were laid up in bed or in the hospital, I'd take them seriously. I wouldn't take someone seriously who said they were very sick but they were going about their daily life like everything is normal.
Many people here give lip service to the dangers of climate change but that say little to nothing about what they are doing to prepare for what's coming. Thee are exceptions like one DUer who said she and her husband bought acreage in western NC for them and family to move to soon