zeogold: If we were to boycott every company that's had a shady or dishonest dealing in the past, we'd never buy anything again.
It's not a lack of dignity, it's common sense and realization that this is just how things are. Big companies do crappy things, and I can 100% guarantee you that not enough people are going to care to make an impact unless a superior competitor is presented.
paladin181: I mean, Apple is still making $800 iPhones for $100 total parts and slave labor. They are literally working people to death, and no one cares about that. And this IS documented. Forcing a company out of business for not playing ball is small potatoes to that.
paladin181: His name is MaximeMartyr. Just saying. He already sees himself as a Martyr. Unfortunately, I don't think he realized martyrs have to die for their cause.
MaximeMartyr: Do you think that sacrifices are acceptable for the good of the most?
I personally don't.
paladin181: Your name LITERALLY means to die for a cause and the good of many. To kill one man and save 100, absolutely sacrifices are acceptable. And on that note, those advances in medicine and science are used today. By your logic, if the doctors of today had any ethics, they'd let their patients suffer and die because some of those lifesaving medical advances came at a cost and should be boycotted.
Do you know why Apple is still making $800 iPhones? Because people keep buying iPhones.
What about you? Do you care about that? I guess you do since you talk about it so it is something in your mind.
Do you buy iPhones?
Personnaly I boycott Apple, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, which are the five eyes of the NSA to violate everyone privacy, who are privacy traders, and who have been trying to impose their monopoly to the software market.
I didn't know about Apple's slavery but I was already boycotting them anyway because I already had a bunch of reasons to not want to fund them.
I am a supporter of free open-source softwares, meaning softwares that you are free to do whatever you want with them, that you can check what exactly is inside it, unlike proprietary softwares whose code is unreadable so you can't see what is inside, the most notorious example being Windows which is full of hidden NSA spying tools (Did you know that some NSA employees work in Microsoft and participate into Windows development? Windows is a software partially made by the NSA, you knew it?).
To get back to Apple, I never liked them. And I don't like smartphones either so I don't buy any smartphone. :-3
But about you? Do you buy iPhones knowing that they are products of slavery?
Maxime Martyr is my real name. Martyr is the name that I inherited from my father. Anything to say about it?
And I would prefer to die rather than to live in a way I don't like.
Because I don't care that much for my life and I think that life is pointless if we can't live it the way we want.
To live in order to live is pointless to me.
To me, life is nothing but a limited amount of time that each one has to deal with and I came to the conclusion that the best way of life is to live each moment as if it was our last because we are aware that our existence might end anytime so let's not think about what we would like to do in a theorical future but about what we want to do right now.
Thinking this way, you are aware that trying to stay alive the longest that you can is a pointless goal and you are ready to die anytime for what you care about.
Truth is, I fear an unpleasant life much more than death.
Because death is the end of existence.
Just like birth is the beginning of existence.
If we don't exist, then we are free of any injustice, any pain, any sadness, any regret, any nostalgia, any problem, any stress, any constraint, any limit, any rule, any question, any doubt, any uncomfort, any unease, any bitterness, any responsability, any duty, anything.
And as I said, we are free of any regret so we can't regret the good things.
Before we were born, we were not regretting to not be alive, right?
Then when we will die, we will not regret to not be alive either.
Then to be unhappy to exist is much more scary than to not exist.
Knowing that a martyr is a person who prefers to die rather than to give up what they believe in, and thinking that to live without ideals is pointless, then yes, I think that Martyr is a name which suits well my way of thinking and so which suits me well. Anything to say about it? :-3
Martyr doesn't necessarily mean to die for what they believe in. Martyr means to prefer to die rather than to give up what they believe in. A martyr actually is a stubborn person who will never reject what they believe in even if this stubborness will lead them to their end. And knowing how much idealist and stubborn I am and that I don't fear death, this name definitely suits me well. At least one appropriate thing from my father. :-3
But a martyr has nothing to do with the good of many.
As I said, a martyr is ready to die for their own beliefs. They don't need that their stubborness is good to many.
I don't think that quantity means anything for life. I don't think that 100 persons mean more than one. Numbers don't mean anything to me.
I think that the discoveries made by the nazi scientists desserve to be used because otherwise, the suffering and death of many victims of their unethic experiments would have been totally useless so if their unethic deeds can be used in an ethic way, it should be. To not use their discoveries wouldn't do any good to their victims and wouldn't do any good to people who need it today and who don't deserve to be punished for someone else's sin.
But I still think that the results don't justify the ways, unlike what Machiavel has claimed.
CARRiON-XCII: Seriously? You're judging my dignity based on whether or not I buy a certain video game?
Sit and spin dude.
No. On whether or not you fund an unethic society by buying their products.