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What makes you buy conventional dairy farmed products? It's clear how harmful it's for a well being of cows/calves.

What makes you buy chocolate from giant corps that have slave/child labour in their supply chain?

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You’re bringing up the topic of spending money mindfully while the question is about earning it.

You do save (= earn) when buying cheaper products without asking questions why it's so cheap.

It's still called whataboutism.

Everything anyone does is harmful for someone else. No matter of you eat meat or be a vegan.

But there are different kinds of harm.

> Everything anyone does is harmful for someone else.

That's wildly false.

Prove me wrong.

Reductive, equivocation that can rationalize any travesty because other people are doing it too. That's the shittiest take possible.

You have read my last sentence?

Yeah, have noticed the commenters on Hackernews lately have really been reactive and to be honest, they're not really thinking. It's like if they see anything at all that could be offensive, they strike. And, this may sound harsh, but it reminds me of the tactics of the far right, over focusing on details, taking things out of context, or just being closed minded. People of Hackernews, you used to be better than this!

When or who tells the end of it? To what extent. Don't sanitize just where you live. You will need to keep the entire world clean. It's not fair when it is ok just for you.

Read Croes entire comment. He said, "But there are different kinds of harm."

Funnily enough, I’m vegan and I avoid Nestlé products at all costs.

Fallacies : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

I appreciate you linking the fallacies, but I don't think they're relevant here because answer to both questions (mine's and author's) is the same and I don't try to discredit the author, just offering to examine their own experience to better relate to people earning $500k/y at facebook.

Interesting topics for another thread.

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