Comment by haute_cuisine
8 hours ago
What makes you buy conventional dairy farmed products? It's clear how harmful it's for a well being of cows/calves.
What makes you buy chocolate from giant corps that have slave/child labour in their supply chain?
You’re bringing up the topic of spending money mindfully while the question is about earning it.
You do save (= earn) when buying cheaper products without asking questions why it's so cheap.
It's still called whataboutism.
Funnily enough, I’m vegan and I avoid Nestlé products at all costs.
Everything anyone does is harmful for someone else. No matter of you eat meat or be a vegan.
But there are different kinds of harm.
Reductive, equivocation that can rationalize any travesty because other people are doing it too. That's the shittiest take possible.
You have read my last sentence?
> Everything anyone does is harmful for someone else.
That's wildly false.
Prove me wrong.
Fallacies : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
I appreciate you linking the fallacies, but I don't think they're relevant here because answer to both questions (mine's and author's) is the same and I don't try to discredit the author, just offering to examine their own experience to better relate to people earning $500k/y at facebook.
Interesting topics for another thread.