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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
You give far too much credit to the general population in terms of how much they care about where sutff comes from and how it gets from raw materials to our shopping cart.
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Yep. Two quotes say it all:
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." (Henry David Thoreau)... think about how much the things you buy REALLY cost (esp. from Walmart, for example), when you consider the human cost. It ain't cheap. But most people don't want to see that cost..
Someone else said that "people will hate you for forcing them to make the connections that they do not want to make" (either Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil, both intellectual powerhouses). Most people don't want to see the connection between their consumer choices and someone dying. But it's RIGHT THERE in front of them. I say to continue forcing them to see it, regardless of their reaction.
Every time we buy something, we are guilty of oppressing someone.