I went to a gay camp earlier this year and a couple of the RVs had starlinks. They don’t care and they don’t think their dollars matter.
In fact I had a whole chat with my boss today about Chick Filet, he asked if I was boycotting (and said his gay daughter is too). He then launched into this spiel about how you’re always supporting evil somehow so it doesn’t matter.
I’m like, yeah but not one penny of my money goes to them, and that’s all I can care about.
When this comes up, which isn’t that often, I typically ask them where the line is. Like, presumably there’s something a company could do that’s so evil that they wouldn’t support it. What is it, for them? Crushing babies live on TV? That’s probably too far, right? So then we can sort of do a binary search between that line and where we are, and try to find what is too much for them. I suspect for many people it’s “am I personally, immediately, harmed by this, in a way I can’t rationalize?”
The difference is that you make the conscious decision to define your values and be intentional about them rather than to abandon them entirely to mindless complicity.
Have you watched “The Good Place”? It does a pretty good job diving into the ethical minefield that is modern life (specifically even mentioning Chick Fil A)
I went to a gay camp earlier this year and a couple of the RVs had starlinks. They don’t care and they don’t think their dollars matter.
In fact I had a whole chat with my boss today about Chick Filet, he asked if I was boycotting (and said his gay daughter is too). He then launched into this spiel about how you’re always supporting evil somehow so it doesn’t matter.
I’m like, yeah but not one penny of my money goes to them, and that’s all I can care about.
When this comes up, which isn’t that often, I typically ask them where the line is. Like, presumably there’s something a company could do that’s so evil that they wouldn’t support it. What is it, for them? Crushing babies live on TV? That’s probably too far, right? So then we can sort of do a binary search between that line and where we are, and try to find what is too much for them. I suspect for many people it’s “am I personally, immediately, harmed by this, in a way I can’t rationalize?”
Oh I like this, thank you.
Boycotting everything evil is hard because there’s so much.
Like, I avoid nestle, musk and Zuckerberg, and mostly avoid Amazon, but I’m still definitely paying evil billionaires for a bunch of my other shit.
The difference is that you make the conscious decision to define your values and be intentional about them rather than to abandon them entirely to mindless complicity.
Have you watched “The Good Place”? It does a pretty good job diving into the ethical minefield that is modern life (specifically even mentioning Chick Fil A)
The good place is quite reductive towards the actual issue, encouraging consumerism without regards to consequences, no?
It’s inconvenient to voluntarily abstain from things and many people aren’t prepared to face that so they make excuses to justify their indiscipline.