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> I don't, for example, buy anything from Nestle. Cool. But that isn’t really that cool. That one is easy. What makes you okay with buying products from Apple

> I don't, for example, buy anything from Nestle. Cool. But that isn’t really that cool. That one is easy. What makes you okay with buying products from Apple but not from Nestle? Is it that Nestle has enough competition that it’s a low cost protest? Is it that Apple is hurting people far away from you while Nestle is exploiting your more local environment? What would it take to make you buy from Nestle again? If they somehow bought Apple’s laptop division? Having no beliefs is more laudable than people who act on only the convenient beliefs.

micromacrofoot 5y ago
> Having no beliefs is more laudable than people who act on only the convenient beliefs. what? laudable by whom? sure it’s lazy to only act on convenient beliefs, but it’s certainly more interesting than doing literally nothing if my one belief is to cut those little six-pack pop rings before putting them in the trash to benefit sea turtles… how is not doing that laudable? because someone told you it’s cool to not care about anything?
- PraetorianGourd 5y ago
  Nobody has ever told me in any way, shape or form that not caring is cool. In fact, in my generation the opposite is true, caring is 100% cool. See the scene in the remake of “21 Jump Street” where Channing Tatum’s character is thrown off by how “activist” everyone is. My point though was more specific to the poster I replied to, they hand-waved the parent comment away (partially) by mentioning that they boycott Nestle. It rings hollow that all of the other points are less relevant because they boycott what is quite possibly the easiest company to boycott. I would have more respected a response of either “yeah, I pick and choose what I boycott based on both logically tangible and emotional reasons, so trying to find consistency is not only impossible but also foolish” or just to say “who I boycott and why is up to me. Maybe I boycott all of those companies, maybe none. I don’t boycott to be performative”

micromacrofoot 5y ago

> Having no beliefs is more laudable than people who act on only the convenient beliefs. what? laudable by whom? sure it’s lazy to only act on convenient beliefs, but it’s certainly more interesting than doing literally nothing if my one belief is to cut those little six-pack pop rings before putting them in the trash to benefit sea turtles… how is not doing that laudable? because someone told you it’s cool to not care about anything?

PraetorianGourd 5y ago
Nobody has ever told me in any way, shape or form that not caring is cool. In fact, in my generation the opposite is true, caring is 100% cool. See the scene in the remake of “21 Jump Street” where Channing Tatum’s character is thrown off by how “activist” everyone is. My point though was more specific to the poster I replied to, they hand-waved the parent comment away (partially) by mentioning that they boycott Nestle. It rings hollow that all of the other points are less relevant because they boycott what is quite possibly the easiest company to boycott. I would have more respected a response of either “yeah, I pick and choose what I boycott based on both logically tangible and emotional reasons, so trying to find consistency is not only impossible but also foolish” or just to say “who I boycott and why is up to me. Maybe I boycott all of those companies, maybe none. I don’t boycott to be performative”