Our chocolate still comes at a cost...
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I honestly don't care either way how people view me personally because I honestly don't care about where the world's going if it doesn't affect me. I'm self-absorbed like that. I eat Reese's (I really did have a fast break this morning) because I like it, how it got to the store and in my hands doesn't bother me one bit.
Also: I judge because I have no problems with people judging me right back. Why? Because I defend what I believe in and don't fool myself into believing I'm doing something that I'm not really doing.
@SpecialKO - I never said people had to STFU, I even said I'd give people kudos for saying that they felt good about doing their small part. I said people who claim to be the second coming of a messiah because they didnt' spend $1.50 are who I'm going to make fun of. I don't see how you can still be confused on my position.
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You can make a conscious decision to change one thing in your life without having (possibly yet) changed all parts of it. That's not necessarily hypocritical. Maybe you haven't gotten around to it. Maybe those other issues don't mean as much to you. Maybe you're simply not aware. There are a million reasons aside from hypocrisy.
GasBandit
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That picture made me cringe and then laugh.Third street represent.
What's up with your avatar? Were you teleported into a misshapen, gangrenous thumb?
No, it's still cold outside and I need my balaklava. Unfortunately, I kinda look like a sand worm with a House face.
It's because my series is ovah! Left out in the cold, as it were.
If you could turn your thumbprint into an image of house, that would be rad when the police had to fingerprint you. You'd be a little police celebrity, and they'd pass around your fingerprints like trading cards. You'd get asked a lot why your thumbprint is like that.
To which there's really only one correct answer.
To which there's really only one correct answer.
ElJuski
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When I go to the store, I try and not buy chocolate bars. I also try to buy certified fair trade and all that other stuff at the regular supermarket, too. I don't get a raging hard on and slap Reese's out of people's hands at the checkout line. I have told my friends and family about something new I learned about the chocolate trade.
I don't think that makes me an awful, nor a misguided, person.
I don't think that makes me an awful, nor a misguided, person.
Going by the recent direction of this thread, that definitely keeps you from being a saint.
Dear god, you guys, look at this:
I don't buy any kind of chocolate, so I'm better than everybody else because THAT'S MORE FOR YOU.
I'm pretty sure no one is saying that. What we're saying is doing something is better than nothing.
Here's the "complex math" so you can understand.
a + b = 2
a = buying slave labor chocolate
b = buying sweat shop sneakers
Say someone stops buying the chocolate but still buys sneakers.
2-a = 1
Did that person lessen the shitty factor of the world? Yes.
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Necronic
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I definitely appreciate the implied statements in here against voting. Because if you're stupid enough to accept that argument I would rather you not vote (and I would rather have a larger say in the election nbd.)
And anyways back to the thread this kind of sucks. There are few production methods that I feel are sufficiently immoral enough to bother me enough into making me change my purchasing. Suprisingly, child slavery falls into that.
And anyways back to the thread this kind of sucks. There are few production methods that I feel are sufficiently immoral enough to bother me enough into making me change my purchasing. Suprisingly, child slavery falls into that.
GasBandit
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Were you in on the discussion I had about making green energy by building new air conditioners based on the souls of murdered orphans, since paranormal activity always seems to make the localized temperature drop into the 40s?
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With a frame from a 1995 episode, none the less.
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