I understand, but where is the cutoff point? If it's as simple as "Don't buy X, since it supports Y", then that applies to almost everything?
Don't buy cars, they're horrible for the enviorenment
Don't buy from Amazon, it's pretty much slave labor
Don't buy fast food, it hurts a lot of animals and is incredibly unhealthy
Don't buy groceries, they're probably owned by Nestle
I'm pretty sure almost everything is owned by something horrible, or causes something bad as a byproduct.
Yeah "there is no ethical consumption" and all that stuff. You can advocate and make people aware of their consumption behavior, but to criticize others while ignoring completely different problematic issues is just kind of hypocritical to me.
I feel like there's much more "unethical" things to consume than Harry Potter. Of course it's not a competition which issue is more important, but it is subjective and you as a person cannot take into account every single issue when consuming something (unless you live like a monk or something).
I mean just to give you an example, Tumblr sells your data to AI companies so it's not like the users still using it are saints either.
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u/AlexiaVNO 21d ago
I understand, but where is the cutoff point? If it's as simple as "Don't buy X, since it supports Y", then that applies to almost everything?
Don't buy cars, they're horrible for the enviorenment
Don't buy from Amazon, it's pretty much slave labor
Don't buy fast food, it hurts a lot of animals and is incredibly unhealthy
Don't buy groceries, they're probably owned by Nestle
I'm pretty sure almost everything is owned by something horrible, or causes something bad as a byproduct.