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Ignoring your implication that other countries are "bad people" and your country of choice is "good people", western nations ship garbage to other countries

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48444874

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/31/waste-co...

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So? Suppose I pay Indonesia to take my garbage and Indonesia dumps it in the ocean. I'm the bad guy? Or Indonesia? Rhetorical question.

offloading ethical/moral violations to poorer countries by paying them does not free you of responsibility, no.

It's like how child labor ends up in supply chains - at the very least once you know it's happening you bear responsibility for making sure it no longer does, or if you can't do that, you stop doing business with the wrongdoer

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