ACORN

[ShadowHM]

Frankly, I have no idea how "ethical" the chain of materials and labor are for the products I buy. Many are made in SE Asia. I just know that I need them, and so I buy them. Did the metal come from a strip mine? Were the tailings properly handled? Did the wood come from a old growth forest or rain forest? Was the product built by prisoners or children? Are the workers crammed into tiny stalls for 14 hours a day? I don't know. Not much has changed in this regard since nations have been trading goods. Do people in your nation acknowledge their continuing role in the blood diamond trade?

If some nation does not regulate their industries to protect its people or environment, then it's that nation's government that is irresponsible or immoral.

So, if I understand you correctly, you feel that your moral rectitude is perfectly safe because bad things are being done somewhere else by someone else to provide the goods that you purchase. You are allowed to scrunch your eyes tightly shut and cover your ears as you hand over your money. <_<

Where is the messed up thinking? :angry: You could buy items made in America because then you would have a reasonably certain answer to all those questions. You could even bestir yourself to follow the provenance of the goods you purchase.

But you cannot claim that because somebody else somewhere else does bad things, you are absolved because it didn't happen to your neighbours.