• atro_city@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    That is all true, but still not an excuse to drop your plastic bottle beside a trash can and when called out about it go “it’s all part of my evil plan”. These kinds of comics, regardless of their intention, will be used as a reason for people to say “recycling doesn’t work, so whatever I do, nothing will change, so I can pollute at will”.

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      2 days ago

      The comic does point out that the litterer is not a good person, though. You could argue that this cutesy depiction of a gleefully evil person serves to normalize misbehavior but it doesn’t try to hide the fact that it’s misbehavior.

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      2 days ago

      I agree that Mimi is being a dick in this comic and that anyone acting like that in real life is a dick.

      That being said, dropping the plastic bottle in the generic trash hole is something I could ignore. (And if your area has a bottle deposit I damn well expect you to put the bottle beside the trash can so less fortunate people can at least get your deposit – of course a gleefully evil person wouldn’t do it in this case.)