Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
by Xylakant on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @06:19PM
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It’s not a false premise. It’s just not humanly possible to change everything you don’t support. We can’t move all back to self-dug caves and till the land with our bare hands. You need to pick your battles.
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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
by tabeth on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @06:27PM
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It's not about changing things you support, it's just about consistency in your actions.
Taking the child labor thing into account, never being brand new electronics again would pretty much take care of that. One could make an argument that buying used goods is still supporting child labor, but I'd argue it's a sunk cost.
Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
by ForHackernews on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @06:42PM
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> brand new electronics
Why choose this example? Child labour is rife in many sectors, particularly textiles.
It's also rampant in electronics recycling[0]. So even if you never buy any new electronics, you're complicit when you dispose of your old electronics.
The point is you shouldn't allow an impossible quest for perfect ideological consistency and moral purity to prevent you from doing good on a imperfect, inconsistent scale.
[0] http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/india-rising-tide-e-wast...