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You said you cannot make an ethical purchase in a capitalist society. I live in one, so by your rules I can only act unethically. This means effectively, there is no good or bad. This is a popular method of debasing people. Maybe you aren’t aware of that, but the poster you did the dog pile with certainly is.

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>You said you cannot make an ethical purchase in a capitalist society. I live in one, so by your rules I can only act unethically.

And where's the error in reasoning, if we exclude your hurt feelings?

>This means effectively, there is no good or bad.

That's a stretch. There is more to life than mercantile consumption.

> This is a popular method of debasing people. Maybe you aren’t aware of that, but the poster you did the dog pile with certainly is.

I don't know what this means.

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