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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Except you are (both) confusing the message and the issue.
His personal lifestyle isn't even remotely relevant to the discussion because the scales are totally different.
Saying DiCaprio is a hypocrite for speaking about environmentalism is like saying I can't complain about massive oil spills that pollute our waters and threaten wildlife because I peed in a pool once.
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I respectfully disagree with you on that. If you're going to be a leading spokesman for an issue you can't just talk about it you have to live it and do it and lead it.
That's just the way it works to me.
You can't have a person who wears fur coats talking about animal rights.
You can't have a person that talks about violence against woman with a past that has him violent against woman.
On the other hand a former drug addict is an excellent spokes person for drug programs.
And to me, if your going to take up a cause take up a cause, that's why this Leo thing gets to me when he talks about the Oilsands but ignores some of the worst offenders in terms of carbon emissions. If your going to demand that Alberta shut down the Oilsands for example, then you better be demanding that the California fields get shut down. You'd better fly to Saudi Arabia and Russia and China and get in their faces, instead he to me is cherry picking.