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You don’t take a moral stand when everyone else takes a moral stand. Someone has to be first.
by babesh 6y ago
You don’t take a moral stand when everyone else takes a moral stand. Someone has to be first.
- zepto 6y agoYou also don’t take a moral stand when it would do more harm than good. Someone has to be sensible, and not hurt people just to please vocal activists in another country.
- babesh 6y agoThat is oh so convenient and so wrong. It’s also known as the not my problem argument. Suppose you lived in England in 1861. Would you choose to do business with the Confederacy? Where is your magic calculator that shows you would do more harm than good by not doing business with them? In reality there isn’t one and you can’t make the calculation based on that. Instead, the magic calculator always swings to do business because it is profitable to do so. What happened to Google when it left China? Those services just got magically replaced. Search replaced. Streaming replaced. Cloud services replaced.
- zepto 6y agoOk. So you think that it would actually do no good at all for these companies to leave, because they would be replaced. It seems like you don’t actually care at all about religious freedom in Pakistan then.