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Overall, I agree with your point, but it's definitely a fallacy that if you do bad things it nullifies good things that you do. If (for example) you thought th
by imsofuture 8y ago
Overall, I agree with your point, but it's definitely a fallacy that if you do bad things it nullifies good things that you do.
If (for example) you thought that eating vegan was better ethically or environmentally, eating vegan only one day a week would still be "better" than not eating vegan at all. Eating non-vegan some of the time is not hypocritical, nor does it nullify the "good" you're doing.
Absolutely though, companies should be shamed (and not patronized) for their bad behavior and bad associations.
- sgt101 8y agoYeah, but I wouldn't focus on the vegan part of the phrase "x is a vegan serial killer" if someone was introduced that way.
- jsonne 8y ago"but it's definitely a fallacy that if you do bad things it nullifies good things that you do." That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that if you inject yourself as a moral arbiter into a debate, then the people you're marketing to with that stance are going to demand moral purity. You open yourself up to more criticism when you first criticize. I'm not really making a moral argument here at all actually. I'm more saying "those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" from a practical standpoint unless you're ready to abandon good business practices in the pursuit and constantly moving goal posts of moral purity.