Our chocolate still comes at a cost...

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On the other hand, to some degree there's an undercurrent of, "If you're buying reese's you're condemning children to slavery" in this thread, so perhaps Shego's just defending herself from that implied judgement....
 
This does seem a lot like another Halforums we-agree-in-principle-just-violently-disagree-on-semantics-I'm-up-for-some-antics-fuck-you-I'm-a-tastemaker kind of thing.
 
On the other hand, to some degree there's an undercurrent of, "If you're buying reese's you're condemning children to slavery" in this thread, so perhaps Shego's just defending herself from that implied judgement....
I honestly don't care either way how people view me personally because I honestly don't care about where the world's going if it doesn't affect me. I'm self-absorbed like that. I eat Reese's (I really did have a fast break this morning) because I like it, how it got to the store and in my hands doesn't bother me one bit.

Also: I judge because I have no problems with people judging me right back. Why? Because I defend what I believe in and don't fool myself into believing I'm doing something that I'm not really doing.

@SpecialKO - I never said people had to STFU, I even said I'd give people kudos for saying that they felt good about doing their small part. I said people who claim to be the second coming of a messiah because they didnt' spend $1.50 are who I'm going to make fun of. I don't see how you can still be confused on my position.
 

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You can make a conscious decision to change one thing in your life without having (possibly yet) changed all parts of it. That's not necessarily hypocritical. Maybe you haven't gotten around to it. Maybe those other issues don't mean as much to you. Maybe you're simply not aware. There are a million reasons aside from hypocrisy.
 
I think she just means that you have to act like a saint before you tell people you're a saint, but as long as you're not self-sanctifying, saint away.
 
If you could turn your thumbprint into an image of house, that would be rad when the police had to fingerprint you. You'd be a little police celebrity, and they'd pass around your fingerprints like trading cards. You'd get asked a lot why your thumbprint is like that.

To which there's really only one correct answer.
 

ElJuski

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When I go to the store, I try and not buy chocolate bars. I also try to buy certified fair trade and all that other stuff at the regular supermarket, too. I don't get a raging hard on and slap Reese's out of people's hands at the checkout line. I have told my friends and family about something new I learned about the chocolate trade.

I don't think that makes me an awful, nor a misguided, person.
 
Chocolate bars are gross, you'd all be better people not eating them. Now if they told me bags of Ms. Vickie's Sea Salt and Malt Vinegar chips were made by child slave labor, I'd be pissed off.
 
Do you walk around, telling people that based on your actions you're changing the world while still using other products that complete obliviate your small actions or do you content yourself that you're doing your small part in a bigger picture and leave it at that?

Because if you're doing the first, then yes you are. If you're doing the second, I (for the 80th time) do not draw issue with that and even say "Kudos to you".
I'm pretty sure no one is saying that. What we're saying is doing something is better than nothing.

Here's the "complex math" so you can understand.

a + b = 2

a = buying slave labor chocolate
b = buying sweat shop sneakers

Say someone stops buying the chocolate but still buys sneakers.

2-a = 1

Did that person lessen the shitty factor of the world? Yes.
 

Necronic

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I definitely appreciate the implied statements in here against voting. Because if you're stupid enough to accept that argument I would rather you not vote (and I would rather have a larger say in the election nbd.)

And anyways back to the thread this kind of sucks. There are few production methods that I feel are sufficiently immoral enough to bother me enough into making me change my purchasing. Suprisingly, child slavery falls into that.
 

ElJuski

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Greatest television show of all time orrrrrrrrrrrr shitty internet meme.

I'd say YOU DECIDE, but it's Halforums, the jokes are always going to come dated and beaten to the ground.


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