From: Robbie Lindauer (robblin@thetip.org)
Date: Mon Aug 11 2003 - 13:09:59 MDT
On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 06:13 AM, Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> If you can write that sentence then you can read labels and the
> answer
> is obvious.
Obviously you weren't paying attention in California V. Nike. They can
officially lie to us with impunity.
Say to yourself this:
"I should believe everything I read on corporate labels".
Now try it without laughing.
> We do not have to buy from slavemasters. We don't have to pay
> first
> world prices for products manufactured by 3rd world slave labor.
Maybe. Perhaps the very fact that we us American Money commits us to
using slave-labor. I know it commits us to wars and economic policies
that are predatory.
> Perhaps
> sometimes there is no alternative but most times there seems to be.
You do what you can, no doubt, but this doesn't make the overarching
problem magically go away.
> In my opinion
> when we knowingly buy these products we are only the Morlocks of H. G.
> Wells.
> world living off someone elses misery.
Definitely, assuming we could reasonably be expected to KNOW that we
are and that we have a CHOICE in the matter.
Ought implies can.
Best,
Robbie
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