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".
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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.