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They're defending taking advantage of a miner's forced fire sale. Less waste, lower price for a good GPU. What's not to like?

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His argument is that by buying a miner card, you're validating strategy of miners, which are considered "bad actors" by gamers and environmentalists. If you intentionally decline buying a miner card, you're helping to make miner activity less profitable, thus doing the "right thing".

You still want to give them money in exchange for dubious goods.

Why don't you go to a beach and scoop up some oil from the BP spill? It's good oil after all.

Let them clean up their environmental disaster.

Holy false equivalence, batman!

I have never understood this argument. How much environmental damage is done by the mere creation of all television shows cumulatively, the creation of plastic tat given away at conventions, plastic wrapping at grocery stores?

But graphics cards are what we REALLY need to focus on and you better believe you are tuning in for the next big show. It's almost manufactured.

>Why don't you go to a beach and scoop up some oil from the BP spill? If it was trivial, why not? If you told him "don't buy any GPUs" then it would make sense. But either way he will be using some "oil" (GPU) in this case so I don't see why he should waste perfectly good "oil." I suppose you would rather leave the oil in the ocean?

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