Society is so complex today that anything you do can inadvertently be supporting evil. Most of the electronics devices we use are made in China, so if you are using one to access the internet, you’ve spent money “supporting” China and by extension, its authoritarian government. Buying food from the grocery store, well most likely you were buying from a large corporation that may have unethical practices. Just wanting to travel without walking? Well now you are polluting the planet. Pay taxes? Well you could be supporting a government that have human rights violations.
Just use an adblocker if you have to use reddit, its not a war crime, but just try to avoid it as much as you can if you want to support the protests.
That’s pretty much the defining argument from The Good Place. The world is so complicated now that it’s nearly impossible to be fully moral. The only thing you can really do is to do what good you can and try to be better today than you were yesterday.
Problem is that people who make the argument that the person you replied to make are usually the type to use that philosophy as an all inclusive excuse to not even try, but just continue doing what they’re doing and feel ethically justified doing it.
Society is so complex today that anything you do can inadvertently be supporting evil. Most of the electronics devices we use are made in China, so if you are using one to access the internet, you’ve spent money “supporting” China and by extension, its authoritarian government. Buying food from the grocery store, well most likely you were buying from a large corporation that may have unethical practices. Just wanting to travel without walking? Well now you are polluting the planet. Pay taxes? Well you could be supporting a government that have human rights violations.
Just use an adblocker if you have to use reddit, its not a war crime, but just try to avoid it as much as you can if you want to support the protests.
That’s pretty much the defining argument from The Good Place. The world is so complicated now that it’s nearly impossible to be fully moral. The only thing you can really do is to do what good you can and try to be better today than you were yesterday.
The other thing you can do is reduce consumption. However you can, to whatever extent you can
Problem is that people who make the argument that the person you replied to make are usually the type to use that philosophy as an all inclusive excuse to not even try, but just continue doing what they’re doing and feel ethically justified doing it.
You’re right that the world is shades of gray, and not black and white
But in this case Reddit is a separated entity that you can just avoid to not support.
Your excuse makes sense when it’s vital services that are intertwined with other vital services that you have to use.
There are alternatives to Reddit.