• Victoria Antoinette @lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    The goal of the business was to make money so when their product stopped making money they stopped producing it.

    but they could have changed their values. they could have decided that the goal was not to make money, but to cover the earth, nay, the solar system with vcrs. but they didnt. they chose other values, and tried to act in a way that would uphold those values. they choose the values. they choose the action. i have no resposibility for others choices in this regard.

    • Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
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      9 days ago

      Look, I enjoy uncertainty, too. I’m a silly little teacup orbiting Jupiter agnostic joker. But there are times when you can predict with a fair degree of certainty what’s going to happen. If you were being completely honest with yourself you would admit that enough people going vegan would probably have a noticeable effect on the animal agriculture industry. And yes, admittedly neither of us know if that’s true or not. But either way I’m not going to give that industry my money because I’m pretty sure they’re just going to use it to keep killing animals.

      I’m not judging what you do, but be honest with yourself, the money you give them is probably going to go toward killing more animals. Maybe they’ll change their mind and all decide to stop tomorrow, but until then I will keep trying to disincentivise them the way I’m most certain will work.

      And if you do actually care about the treatment of animals please reconsider whether or not you have an impact.

      • Victoria Antoinette @lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        enough people going vegan would probably have a noticeable effect on the animal agriculture industry.

        certainly, but perhaps not the effect you are expecting. your assertion that you know what their reaction would be, and that it would be to accept making less money, is just not likely true.