I don’t know man, but I feel like I’m supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.

  • User Deleted@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Society is so complex today that anything you do can inadvertently be supporting evil. Most of the electronics devices we use are made in China, so if you are using one to access the internet, you’ve spent money “supporting” China and by extension, its authoritarian government. Buying food from the grocery store, well most likely you were buying from a large corporation that may have unethical practices. Just wanting to travel without walking? Well now you are polluting the planet. Pay taxes? Well you could be supporting a government that have human rights violations.

    Just use an adblocker if you have to use reddit, its not a war crime, but just try to avoid it as much as you can if you want to support the protests.

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      1 year ago

      That’s pretty much the defining argument from The Good Place. The world is so complicated now that it’s nearly impossible to be fully moral. The only thing you can really do is to do what good you can and try to be better today than you were yesterday.

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      You’re right that the world is shades of gray, and not black and white

      But in this case Reddit is a separated entity that you can just avoid to not support.

      Your excuse makes sense when it’s vital services that are intertwined with other vital services that you have to use.

      There are alternatives to Reddit.