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Their customers live in a country without religious freedom. Do you think Apple has the power to change that? If they don’t do business there their customers
by zepto 6y ago
Their customers live in a country without religious freedom.
Do you think Apple has the power to change that?
If they don’t do business there their customers are objectively worse off.
Not only do they not have religious freedom, but they also don’t have access to technology.
That seems wrong to me.
I wonder what people in Pakistan would say?
Would most of them really want these companies to leave?
- babesh 6y agoI am saying that the companies are hypocrites. They don’t have to leave. Just expose their hypocrisy and lies.
- babesh 6y agoAlso, let’s take it even further. How about the right to vote? Would it ok to do business in a country where women don’t have the right to vote? How about apartheid? How about slavery? How about genocide? Where is your line and on what basis would you make it? Do you even have a line?
- zepto 6y agoNo - I just don’t think Apple has the power to stop religious repression in Pakistan. Despite being asked, you haven’t actually explained how they can do this. Also, I ask again: do the people of Pakistan want Apple to abandon their customers in Pakistan?
- babesh 6y agoThey can do any of the following: - stop branding their morality (especially Apple) - stop doing business in Pakistan You go try asking them.
- zepto 6y ago> stop branding their morality You can’t seriously think this would have any effect on Pakistan’s regime. > You go try asking them. Ok, so you don’t know what people in Pakistan want. How is it ethical for you to argue that they should not be allowed Google or Apple’s products?
- babesh 6y agoI said they were hypocrites. Not that it would have an effect. It would end their hypocrisy.
- zepto 6y agoSeems like you don’t care about religious freedom Pakistan at all. This is just about you wanting to shame Apple.
- babesh 6y agoAnd you don’t care about hypocrisy. And you don’t care about religious freedom either.
- zepto 6y agoThanks for being honest. I care about hypocrisy. I just don’t think it’s a moral issue, because everyone is a hypocrite from someone else’s point of view. I care about religious freedom quite deeply, indeed more so than most freedoms. I am interested in constructive steps to improve it. Pakistan is a theocracy, where as many as 90% of the population are Sunni Muslim. The Ahmediyya are a modern sect founded in the late 1800s, who are regarded as non-Muslims by the Pakistani constitution. The vast majority of the Pakistani population supports this view. I don’t think you know much about how to change this situation, and I think it’s fairly obvious that Apple or Google leaving, as you have already admitted elsewhere, would not have a significant effect. It’s really not clear what you are trying to achieve, except for some shaming of Apple for a bullshit reason.
- babesh 6y agoHypocrisy is a moral issue. It plays into the principle of fairness that even animals have. If that isn’t morality, then almost nothing is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy Also, it is right to call it like it is. Telling the truth as you see it is the right thing to do. Not telling the truth is not right.