If we keep prioritizing money and greed over everything else, propping up absurd authoritarian regimes like this in the process, we're probably not going to be free to have these beautiful choices in the future. This isn't cool.https://twitter.com/stegersaurus/status/1233200333112758272 …
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If I take a pricipled stand I have to basically not buy anything...that is the implication of the 5%...they touch almost everything in some way...the law...yes I disagree with their rule of law but I dont want to project my values on them. That slope could be slippery too.
I've answered @purpultat on this same basic point elsewhere in the thread. But tl;dr: Indecisiveness over unanswerable corner cases ("it's complicated") is worse and there's an uncomplicated answer to that.
Also, what's wrong with projecting values? It's not "all relative, man"
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Care to expand on your first point? Why is it worse in your view?
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When you don't make decisions based on values due to indecisiveness, others less principled and more determined to get their way will make them for you. I really think this is a big reason why sociopaths constantly gain the upper hand in our world.
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The problem is when we put pressure on US companies not to do business in China (or elsewhere) because we disagree with GoC policies and normal Chinese people suffer (and we dont end up changing the GoC policies). Photos are just a minor example. Think food, medicine, tech etc
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So instead we're just going to facilitate an effort to brainwash 1.4 billion people? Based on dubious speculation that in not doing so there's going to be a slippery slope to a huge organized country like that totally losing its grip on self sufficiency?
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