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Originally Posted by JinnKai
If you buy diamonds knowing full well the 'blood diamond' effect and the untold deaths it causes, are you not guilty by facilitation?
There are plenty of instances where one could note that your behavior lead ANOTHER individual to cause pain upon a third party. I think the buck stops with the person who made the decision to cause pain, not the one who facilitated it.
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This is why people don't buy blood diamonds.
It sounds like Jinn is trying to absolve the individual of social responsibility - blame the diamond hunters, blame the President, blame the sweatshop overlord, blame the druglords and junkies but never take responsibility for the fact that you buy diamonds (thus feeding the blood diamond trade), you allowed the President to declare and wage war preemptively, you happily buy Walmart clothing (feeding the sweatshop industry), and you allow your country to give weapons to drug cartels and provide money to dangerous people for the sake of keeping crop prices cheap.
I just find that "it's not my fault/ it's not my problem" mentality allows people to stay in their delusional safety bubble. Worldwide change starts on an individual basis. We recycle even though we're not terribly bothered by global climate change (just some strange weather once in awhile) - but the generations afterwards will be hugely affected by what we do now.
We live in a global society. Accountability is necessary because eventually, everything will come back to us (see our old friends Bin Laden and Hussein and how a relationship between two Middle Easterners and a handful of American businessmen and politicians has affected the rest of the world).