Always found it interesting how people will stop eating meat because they wouldn't kill that animal themselves, but don't stop using smartphones because they wouldn't enslave a half a dozen children and rape some Congolese women themselves...
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Oof. Bigger distance from the problem / lack of awareness of the issues, I guess.
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I think and his black elephants are more to the point here, tbh.
People don't -want- to know, because "our political and economic systems rest on human slavery" is a much more discomfiting realization than "factory farms are evil".
When dealing with animal killings, you can make vague appellations to "market forces", "voting with your wallet" and so on.
Can you really do the same for corporate African slave labor? Or does "I'll vote with my wallet" suddenly make you sound like a psychopath?
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Lack of empathy for animals - likely a trait evolved from our hunter ancestors.
"Running Free Software on hardware manufactured by slaves" (see "one network one world" from 2013) which gets into the guts of this
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Yes, you could easily make the argument that enslaving billions of chickens in horrid conditions is a much worse crime than some slave labour.
But I can count the people I know who would grasp that on two hands.
Thanks for the recommendation. Will check it out.
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