This makes me see red! What is wrong with these people?

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

Every business is going to have something that one considers to be a "bad business practice." It's unavoidable. However, it's quite outlandish for Jason to say that since every company out there embraces some sort of bad business practice, they should all be treated equally with the hard-earned dollars of consumers; that one business should not be shunned because there's another business with bad practices right around the corner. In fact, as much as I love him, I find it almost childish in it's naive simplicity. No one will ever know every practice of every corporation they give their patronage to, but when one knows about the scummy practices of one and decides to cease giving them their business, that's neither a bad nor hypocritical thing. Total awareness is nonexistent; acting on the things that a consumer is aware of is all that anyone can do.

Well, I never said that. I said they are all bad so each person needs to determine for themselves what they are willing to support. If I said anything different than that, let's see it. How that is naive is beyond me.

On edit - again, I think people should buy from whereever they are comfortable. I just take issue with people beating up one company for its bad acts and letting others off the hook because their bad acts are less severe than someone like Wal Mart. It just seems hypocritical to me. But, then again, I think everyone is a hypocrite to some degree - where's my foil hat