"No, YOU ARE being absurd."
You don't see the difference between my assertion, "Our actions affect those close to us," and your assertion that "EVERYTHING affects everything else?"
"Technically, every single thing I do affects something else."
You don't see the difference between affecting "something" else and affecting "everything" else?
"Your kind of thinking however, threatens to elevate the importance of these intangible domino effects."
I think you meant to say "butterfly effects." Be that as it may, my statement deals not with intangibles, but with the concrete, visible effects behavior has in the immediate vicinity of the actor.
"It's common on forums."
It's not very common on this forum.
"Such reasoning is twistedly absurd."
No, the problem is not with the reasoning. Conservatives agree with the reasoning, but hold that freedom is so important that we should accept the cost. Nanny staters hold that safety is more important than freedom.
It's true. Me sitting here writing to you right now is having an effect not just on me and you, but on other things.
It may be negligible, but it does have an effect.
So, if it has an effect, undoubtedly including bad as well as good, we should ban us writing on this forum.
I don't know what "butterfly effects" are; never heard of that. Domino effect is from tripping 1 domino which knocks down another then another then another, and in the world-record domino-fall set-up the last domino can be very far away.
And BTW, yes, not reading 100+ posts including 5000-word posts DOES happen alot on this forum.