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Exactly this. There's people responsible for not paying their parking tickets on time, and then there's folks such as Kissinger and Madeleine Albright that have the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on their hands. Lets not sweep it all under the same rug.

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The issue here is that, when you live in the same society, the effects of these killings tend to trickle down to benefits towards you.

Not being able to see that the shoes we wear can be the product of child exploitation on the other side of the world is the problem, that allows people on the top to act the way they do.

Plenty of people today are aware of things like clothing being made in unsavory conditions. Few can afford clothing themselves in the alternatives, however. Even in the grocery store, you have to pay sometimes double for free range eggs. Not everyone has the disposable income to pay extra for the morally conscious choice. We are limited to what the market makes available at our own price points, you never have much choice in the matter.

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