Or what about the person who pays taxes to such a country or buys those cheap clothes? We all have some level of culpability, whether we choose to admit it or

Or what about the person who pays taxes to such a country or buys those cheap clothes? We all have some level of culpability, whether we choose to admit it or not. I think that the realization of this makes people very uncomfortable and one way people deal with this is the desire to find all of the bad things and then perform a stack ordering of badness. A couple of examples: For the sub-prime mess, people will argue for hours whether it's the fault of the borrowers for taking on more than they could handle, or of the banks for pushing the loans or of the government for encouraging the sub-prime market. Fact is, it's probably a mix of all of these things and we should address all of them. Secondly, a common argument against veganism is that no matter how much you try to avoid animal products, it's impossible to do so in today's society as animal products are in a lot of innocuous seeming things like film or tires. But this fact doesn't invalidate the vegan's goal of trying to reduce (what they see as) evil as much as possible. In short, the attempt to find every bad thing or trying to pick out the most bad thing is an impediment to ever making anything better.