You can't criticize the oil prospectors, they wheedle, unless you are entirely removed from reliance on oil.
What clap-trap. Suits their argument though, given that we are all enmeshed in oil and it's products. The stupidity of the argument that disqualifies all of us from comment on the activities of the drillers seems to bypass the brains of commentators such as Mr Keeping Stock, whose post today on the Greenpeace action involving Lucy Lawless is a perfect example of the thinking that I find so depressingly shallow.
Following the logic that Mr KS uses, no criticism is valid, therefore we must all just shut up and let the oil boys get on with their legitimate business.
I
don't
think
so.
Here's a sample of the right-thinking Mr Stock's world view:
" After all, can Lucy Lawless and her foolhardy mates personally guarantee that the environment was not harmed by the production of the survival gear they are using, the cellphones with which they are communicating with a meek and compliant news media (hang your head in shame TVNZ), and the means of transport by which they made their respective ways to New Plymouth?
Of course they can't, which merely exposes them as hypocrites of the first order, as well as lawbreakers preventing people from going about their lawful business."
