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Meaningless? Hmmm. It may not always be 100% rational (as nothing is), but meaningless?

• gyardley 16y ago
  Perhaps 'inconsequential' is the right word? If you're still buying identical products from identical companies, your feelings about BP don't matter much.
  • madair 16y ago
    That sounds like an alternate form of the everyone is doing it argument. If, short of living in a cave, one can mostly only take symbolic action, then symbolic is what I take. But what's not symbolic is the effect of my action on me, it actually affects my life, as in it causes me to miss out on a nice iPad because I'd rather not support the symbolic position that Apple has as cult leader riding on the backs of the poor factory workers. Sure any toy I buy is likely to have the same baggage, but not every toy is a symbol of do-gooders everywhere, and so I'll deal with the symbol with my symbolic gesture, by making the effect non-symbolic for me.