Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.~We have a real problem with trash in this country because everyone just uses stuff and throws it out. Hoarders don’t contribute to this problem.
~Because they have the trash in their own homes, hoarders live a lifestyle which is more honest about its environmental impact.
~Hoarders are sometimes just people who have experienced a terrifying lack of material resources, by living through the Depression or having their parents live through it and pass on the same sort of mindset. How can you hold that against them?
~How does it feel when you sell or throw something out that you later really needed?
~People who have an easy time throwing things out are cold, detached, and unsentimental. They also lack the ability to creatively see the potential uses of things and/or the beauty of them.
~So many people throw out so many useful and interesting and beautiful things!
~Waste not, want not.
~A soda can saved is a soda can earned.
~Who will be laughing when there is a terrorist attack on US soil and all the supermarkets are barren?
~Is a squirrel defective or just prudent? Is there something wrong with ants, possibly the most successful life form on our planet, which even the Bible endorses?
~Some people get an intangible sense of pleasure from order and cleanliness, others get an intangible sense of pleasure from the security of keeping things. How can you say one is inherently superior, especially if it simply isn’t the one that motivates you?
~At the very least, you have to admit that hoarding is probably a very successful strategy developed to fit much scarcer times and therefore is understandable if not virtuous.
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