Re:Humanity Has Flipped the Amazon Forest from Carbon Sink t...
by bjourne on Thursday July 15, 2021 @09:07AM
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If buying makes you an accomplice, wouldn't buying, say, Chinese or Israeli goods make you an accomplice to those regimes' human rights abuses? How far do you think customer responsibility goes?
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Re:Humanity Has Flipped the Amazon Forest from Carbon Sink t...
by danparsonson on Thursday July 15, 2021 @11:58AM
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If the production of those goods entails human rights abuses then yes, that's an analogous situation and buying those goods signals tacit acceptance of those crimes. I think applying that to buying anything (for example) Chinese-made is a bit more of a grey area (not to mention almost impossible to avoid now) but I personally try not to because a proportion of any money going in that direction ends up in the hands of the Chinese government.