I think many people underestimate the level of impulsivity associated with crime.
The average criminal who breaks and enters is not doing research based off your bumper stickers to determine your weekend routine so the house is empty.
They usually are just walking down the neighbourhood and spot an open door, run in and grab valuables then leave.
People on Lemmy (and the tech community) also skew heavily to tech industries so I’m not surprised they are shocked and disagree that saying you work for Microsoft is a bad thing.
Yes, yes, yes, no.
If your point is that I engage in immoral practices; of course I do.
That wasn’t my initial argument though.
As I have said in another comment, if I worked for Microsoft I wouldn’t wear a shirt complaining about my work killing people in a foreign country because I would realise that makes me a hypocrite.
In the same way I wouldn’t be vegan, work for an abattoir and complain to my CEO that killing animals is wrong.
Is the fact that you’re so defensive over my comment not an indication for you to do a little introspection?
You can’t claim the moral high ground if you’re enabling the very thing you’re complaining about.
I don’t comprehend why people find this controversial other than that they may be uncomfortable with their own choices and dislike when some random on the internet has pointed it out to them.
If I worked for Microsoft I wouldn’t wear a shirt complaining about my work being used to kill kids because I would have the presence of mind to realise that I would be a hypocrite if I did that.
I took the hit to my overall earnings by not working for a corporation that kills the planet/tramples on workers rights/engages in war crimes.
Have you?
Imagine thinking you have any moral high ground but work for a massive corporation.
This won’t embolden white supremacists at all…
Get. Off. Reddit.
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Well at the bare minimum you can unionise.
Hypothetically, if Hitler saved a child from being hit by a car would you publicly sing Hitlers praises and be happy to make positive quotes about it?
Does being on the right side of a single issue negate everything else?
This game is a good thought experiment that you can play yourself.
It can help to see connections and interests in all the different facets of society.
I’ll help you out with the stick community though (I’m sure you can think of lots of other examples of how it’s political):
Take a wood product into a country with strict quarantine.
Maybe one of those sticks was removed from a protected area.
Try carry that stick into a secure area, suddenly it’s a weapon. You don’t agree? Better argue your case to politicians who wrote those laws.
I take your point.
A water molecule is not inherently political, there is no ‘politics’ one can observe under an electron microscope.
However, I am approaching from the perspective that humans are perceiving that water. And given that humans are political with everything then all actions/perceptions humans have are political.
Everything is political.
Everything.
Bully for you.
When I eventually make the switch to Linux your efforts will make it even more seamless.
I’m surprised he isn’t in a helicopter because I heard he has been flying those for like 45 years.
Saying that literal Nazis deserve to be killed.
Feels bitter that justice never seems to come for the rich and powerful though.
Hey, you. You’re finally awake.