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Just because there are articles on the internet doesn't make it a plain truth. I don't make a habit of searching for what the working conditions are for every p
by vlunkr 7y ago
Just because there are articles on the internet doesn't make it a plain truth. I don't make a habit of searching for what the working conditions are for every person I interact with.
- stallmanite 7y agoI do. It’s a good way to determine who to do business with if you have ethics.
- falcor84 7y ago"if you have ethics" - what does that mean?! Does that mean to have the same view on ethics as you do?
- stallmanite 7y agoAs stated in my replies elsewhere it was a poorly worded comment. I think it’s not outrageous to suggest that if you care about something e.g. how well companies you do business with treat their employees then it makes sense to do cursory research about that. I don’t think that’s smug or outrageous. Mentioning the word ethics was a mistake.
- menacingly 7y agodo you find being unbearably smug particularly ethical?
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoThe user name is making me think - maybe? Although also making me think googling working conditions etc. might not happen as much as implied.
- mises 7y agoWell, his username is "stallmanite"; what did you expect?
- devin 7y agoIt could be like "kryptonite", I suppose.
- stallmanite 7y agoPlease see my reply above. I phrased my comment poorly. Do you feel that there are no limits to who it’s ok to do business with?
- nogabebop23 7y agoevryone has ethics, maybe not yours but still ethics. Found inf 10 seconds of DDG'ing: Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. again, not necessarily YOUR right or wrong.
- stallmanite 7y agoI phrased my comment poorly. I understand this. Do you care to address what my comment clearly intended to articulate, specifically that if you care about something like how companies treat their employees it’s worth the small effort to do some background research? I’m not sure how that’s outrageous or smug. Do you feel that there are no limits in this regard? Is it not ok to care about such things and factor it into decisions made as a consumer? Why is this a hot-button issue?
- stallmanite 7y agoJeeze guys I didn’t carefully word my comment. Sorry to imply that there exist absolute morals. Not my intention. Now do you all think that the converse is true? Is it ok to do business with someone no matter what? Is there any limit? Why the outrage at my suggestion?
- vlunkr 7y agoI would guess the downvotes are because you're saying that people who don't investigate the working conditions of everyone they interact with don't "have ethics", as if that were some kind of binary state.
- stallmanite 7y agoYes but your comment comes after I have posted clarification on my initial poorly worded comment. Given the added context it is clear that I didn’t mean to imply anything of the sort. I don’t think a charitable interpretation of my comments is that I have some primitive notion of ethics as a binary property.