I don't think (based on no evidence, obviously.... this is the internet) that people are guilty about your paper reuse when they are chopping down virgin forest to make shopping list. As you say, it's pretty easy to do.
I think the act that makes people feel guilty is the thought you (generic you, also you personally) put into your actions which results in you reusing paper, running for charity, not driving to the shops in your own personal Hummer which runs on the blood of the unborn, etc. People take the path of least resistance to things which are perhaps slightly easier, slightly cheaper, slightly less effort... and people who consider their actions and don't get those minimal benefits make them feel guilty.
Perhaps unnecessarily guilty... but they don't know, because they haven't done the thinking/sums/whatever to know just how guilty they should be feeling.
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Date: 2010-05-14 03:54 pm (UTC)I think the act that makes people feel guilty is the thought you (generic you, also you personally) put into your actions which results in you reusing paper, running for charity, not driving to the shops in your own personal Hummer which runs on the blood of the unborn, etc. People take the path of least resistance to things which are perhaps slightly easier, slightly cheaper, slightly less effort... and people who consider their actions and don't get those minimal benefits make them feel guilty.
Perhaps unnecessarily guilty... but they don't know, because they haven't done the thinking/sums/whatever to know just how guilty they should be feeling.