Because, as wrong as it is, I’m not spending money on politics which effects me. I have to protect my own nest, before I can crusade to better others.
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Because, as wrong as it is, I’m not spending money on politics which effects me. I have to protect my own nest, before I can crusade to better others.
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Good luck boycotting China.
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Especially when choice has been taken from you.
It depends on the reasoning. I was taught to forgive and I enjoy going to sleep at night without carrying hatred and anger towards others. So I'm inclined to give people a second or even a third chance in most cases, provided the situation can warrant it. I don't want to turn into a grumpy old man looking for something to complain about daily and direct my anger towards. I'd rather have another purpose in life, a kinder purpose.
That being said there are limitations and there are places that I don't buy from as the result of continuous poor service. I'm not actively boycotting them, but I don't want to experience the same poor service over and over again.
That being said there are limitations and there are places that I don't buy from as the result of continuous poor service. I'm not actively boycotting them, but I don't want to experience the same poor service over and over again.
If I find that a company or country is doing something that I find to be objectionable, I have and will boycott their products, if and whenever possible.
If it's a shaving product I like, I'll buy more than enough to last a lifetime then not buy anymore of their products...unless they come out with something cool.
The difference is that Mussorgsky and Ravel are both deceased. Whatever they might have been, they aren't doing it anymore, and attending a performance of Pictures at an Exhibition won't line their pockets with silver. Whatever they might have been is irrelevant to Mussorgsky's composition and Ravel's arrangement.
OTOH, when you a company does things you consider objectionable, and you know that doing business with them will give them a bit more money to do these things with, it becomes a different situation.
Oddly, that's perhaps easily done with shaving. All you have to do is to forgo badger brushes and razors made in China. It's a tad more difficult for injector blades, but you can get some nice twin blades from Japan.
All I can say about that store is they lived up to the name.
I agree. Much harder when it comes to electronics, though, if not impossible. But I don't have any chinese made shaving gear. Everything I have is either made here in the US, Germany, Italy or Canada. On second thought I bet all of those plastic tubs that hold the soap and cream quite possibly be made in China. I'll have to check them to be sure.
Ideology is one. Another is insults. Paying a company to continue either is like that initiation scene in Animal House.
I'll agree that it is ideology that drives most of my boycott decisions. I don't really care about insults since there really is no way for a company to insult me. The only way I can be insulted is if someone I know and care about decides to insult me. But a company is impersonal, they don't know me and therefore they cannot possibly insult me. There has to be a personal connection.
^^^This^^^
When businesses use their proceeds to advance a particular political/legislative point of view, they become a political advocacy entity.
Absolutely. And now corporations can contribute endless amounts of money to political causes or candidates, which makes things even worse.
A given company's socially conscious decision NOT to sell certain deadly products will also EARN my business, just as a company's decision to sell such items will LOSE my patronage permanently!
I stopped going to a local barber saloon (haircut) because I perceived lack of good manners.
Unfortunately I cannot stop buying from Amazon.
Unfortunately I cannot stop buying from Amazon.
Exactly!!! It’s not an intelligent move for corporations to become political. It can only cause them to be less profitable, but it’s their choice.
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I just wish that if corporations are a person that they are held to the same standards as a person. It seems like individuals are held way more accountable.
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