[R-G] cheat neutral

[Macdonald Stainsby]

http://www.cheatneutral.com/

What is Cheat Offsetting?

When you cheat on your partner you add to the heartbreak, pain and 
jealousy in the atmosphere.

Cheatneutral offsets your cheating by funding someone else to be 
faithful and NOT cheat. This neutralises the pain and unhappy emotion 
and leaves you with a clear conscience.
Can I offset all my cheating?

First you should look at ways of reducing your cheating. Once you've 
done this you can use Cheatneutral to offset the remaining, unavoidable 
cheating

Five ways that Cheatneutral is like carbon offsetting:

    1. Cheatneutral tries to make it seem acceptable to cheat on your 
partner. In the same way, carbon offsetting tries to make it acceptable 
to carry on emitting excess carbon.
    2. Cheatneutral doesn't really do much to reduce the amount of 
cheating in the world. Carbon offsetting does very little to reduce 
global carbon emissions.
    3. It seems impossible to measure how much harm cheating on someone 
does. With carbon offsetting, there is currently no practically feasible 
way of measuring how much carbon offset projects actually save.
    4. Having Cheatneutral's services available could actually 
encourages you to cheat more. If the carbon offsetters persuade you that 
it's possible to offset your emissions, you'll carry on emitting excess 
carbon through your lifestyle rather than think about reducing your 
emissions.
    5. Cheatneutral is fundamentally the wrong way to go about solving 
problems with your relationships. Carbon offsetting is fundamentally the 
wrong way to go about tackling climate change.

Two ways which Cheatneutral is not like carbon offsetting:

    1. We don't make any money out of Cheatneutral. Offset companies in 
the voluntary carbon market take a cut of every transaction and make a 
profit.
    2. Cheatneutral is a joke we thought up in the pub. Carbon 
offsetting presents itself as a credible solution to climate change, 
described by the government's chief scientist Sir David King as “the 
most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the 
threat of terrorism...”

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Macdonald Stainsby
Coordinator, http://oilsandstruth.org
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