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Originally Posted by oscardelben  - if you don't know such practices exists, you are not *directly* supporting them. |
This sounds like an excuse to me. Take "directly" out of the sentence completely - the key word is "support".
And of course, horror videos work better than purely presentations with bullet point lists.
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- if you know about that video and you care about chicks, you can select the source and if you tell all chicks are born from large industries, you've never seen a normal farm.
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That assumes a lot: The source is clear of all doubt to not harm whatever you buy from them, the source on the source (e. g. label on the product) is accurate, sufficient to track for a customer and doesn't use subjective labelling for what's (e. g.) cruel to animals,...
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In case someone disagrees with point one, let me say one thing: every one of us is directly or indirectly supporting millions of bad things in our daily life, basically everything from eating, to clothing and watching tv, because there will be always someone who dislike something (in this example the majority of us).
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So just because we are doing million things wrong they are less wrong? By that assumption we could do billions things wrong and they'd become less wrong than the millions before. In short: To me, another excuse. Look at something for what it is (in that context, I wonder whether anyone while watching this video & disagreeing on its message actually felt/thought/said/wrote 'Yum, ham & eggs' or something similar).
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I too want to touch a nerve with this question: how can you be proud of living in America when your country is doing wars, contributing to climate change etc, wasting money.. etc? Shouldn't you move to another country?
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Why should I be proud of living in America at all? Frankly, why should I be proud of living in any particular place?
Not a button pushed, but a switch flicked, it seems, thanks.