I bought a jar of Nescafe recently, because my usual instant decaf coffee was out of stock. I wonder if people would hate me more for buying a Nestle product, or drinking instant decaf?
“Please hate both transgressions equally.” ~ Gemma
The unfortunate thing is the taste is unchanged no matter what nestle did. My wife told me not to buy Fair Life milk products because they abuse the animals. It felt so wrong, but tasted so much better to drink their chocolate milk. That being said, it isn’t always better to save money and buy the cheaper brand, than give up some more money trying to support a small business. However, we never know whether that small business will be the next nestle. It’s hard to pick these battles but separate the product from the ones who make it.
Well we can"t know wheter the little brand we choose will be the next Nestle, but this is a thing we shouldn’t exactly worry too much about. Following this reasonment, I should kill every person I meet around, because you never know who they are going to be in the future… I think someone who knows the truth and still continues to buy from a certain brand because “it is better”, though knowing there exist more ethical alternatives, that person is just a most horrible kind of creature, not even a human being, from a purely philosopical and psychological point of view. Don’t take it personal, I don’t know what your decisions has been finally.
No, my point was if it is cheaper to buy the name brand vs the small business that charges more, ethics is less the question and more about separating the product from the creators, just like I separate the artist from the art. There are terrible celebrities who have made good music, what changes about the music, what changes about the product, your knowledge of it. But the product itself is still as it was, your perception of [the creator] is just different. Would you stop paying for recycled plastic if you knew it was once someone’s trash. Ethics is about treating people better. I don’t sit there and think, at the store, let me see who I can support today. No, I buy my groceries like a normal person and look for the deal. I am trying to save money. But that being said, although I still bought fair life, I bought it less after knowing that fact, it still influenced my decision and it was a little more expensive, I liked the taste. But coming down on people for what they support is just as wrong as supporting the thing itself.
If an artist is an evil asshole, I don’t support them anymore. I may still think their art is good, but I don’t buy from them, because I don’t want to support them financially and I also don’t want to spread their twisted message and normalize their behaviour. I don’t want to be connected with their evilness in any way. So separating art from the artist is possible for me only in some cases of artists that are long dead and that I think can do no more harm.
“This is not speculation but econometric fact — the company’s market entry correlates directly with this surge in infant deaths. The data does not lie”
Okay I’m done here lmao someone skipped stats 101
“Correlation means causation.”
Isn’t that the saying you learned?
The thing we learned is “correlation doesn’t necessarily imply causation”.
Was joking and left off the /s
I know.
I was pointing out the word “necessarily”. It might. It might not.
You’re being an ass, laughing at a situation with a bunch of dead babies, trying to look smart. Knock it off.
You reply to the wrong comment?
No, I’m talking to you, there’s 10 million dead babies and you’re just going lmao correlation lululul
Until there’s reliable scientific evidence, it’s a shitpost that draws on a correlation and correlation is not causation
It’s been pretty well documented, and you’re still an asshole for laughing at dead children. It doesn’t matter if you try to dress it up by pretending to be rational, you’re still an asshole.
