Is manifestation #3 only limited to weird people? The way I was raised and in my extended social circle people say “we should stop global warming” and also actively try to minimize their negative impact. I never felt like anyone saw this as weird. Could the individual do more? Probably pretty much always. Does the average person have the information and capacity to determine what is the most effective way to reduce their environmental impact? Probably not, but that doesn’t automatically mean hypocrisy.
The Principle of Normality still applies, but whether your actions and your talk agree seems to be entirely dependent on whether Normality in your frame of reference means being hypocritical or not. Therefore, this seems unrelated to whether you are weird or normal.
Are you sure this is the correct thing to do, though?
I believed this myself for a long time and this seems to be the common wisdom:
Get a natural tan → you will get fewer sunburns → therefore you are less at risk of cancer
So what I thought was that it is better to have tanned skin than pale skin (if your skin is naturally pale) and I should purposefully tan my skin to ‘strengthen’ it.
However, recently I have read things that seems to suggest that this is actually not true. Unfortunately I haven’t found great sources for this, but also nothing to the contrary. If you look at point number 3 here, it suggests what I mean.
If I understand that correctly, the argument is as follows:
- Every time your skin changes color you are already doing damage to your skin
- Yes, your skin gets more resistant to sunburns, however in order to regularly keep your skin tanned, the aggregated damage to your skin still puts you at higher risk of skin cancer and other problems
So the course of action would be
- Get enough sun for Vitamin D production (but this seems to be possible without tanning)
- Don’t let your skin get to the point of getting tanned by using sunscreen
- Of course, don’t get sunburnt
Most skin cancer information sites seem to support this interpretation (example), however I feel like a lot of people still seem to think tanned skin is healthy, at least I used to.