At 10/22/09 08:25 PM, TheSilverGuitar wrote:
At 10/22/09 08:19 PM, OddlyPoetic wrote:
Like that isn't the majority of most American shoes?
It is. Which is sad, but
True. Sentiment doesn't automatically change reality.
Nothing i can do about.
Untrue. There's tons of vegan stores that sell knockoff of Converse that weren't made in sweatshops.
Right, in the cities and shit.I live in small white bread coastal CT. Going to New Haven and finding a store would probably coast more than the real shoes. And so many people won't go for the knock-offs because their peers would think their poor, or cheap. Or something.
It's the way of the world.
Is it? I think humanity can be positively dependent on itself solely, although that's much broader than the topic at hand.
Indeed. its certainly true that we have duality here. We are not solely dependent on bad things or good things. I'm not so sure we can be only positively dependent. We certainly wouldn't thrive economically.
I'm sorry, I've always been a massive prick when it comes to these sorts of things.
Nah its cool. I admire a man who admires to his own moral code. Morality, like Erik Erikson said, is action, feeling, and thought. But my moral code justifies that injustice of sweat shops in two ways.
1.I Need shoes. I can't quite get those knock-offs, or even guarantee that they weren't made in sweatshops. So the majority of shoes i can get are sweatshoped. It sucks for them. But what if i went without shoes? I'd be called a a freak, my feet would probably get infected, It's winter soon, it's cold ad fuck in CT right now. So i need good shoes. However their made.
2. While the people that made it are poor. If they didn't make them, it would fuck up the shoe industry and make up the economy. Its selfish, i know. But it needs to happen. Whether or not we'd do fine manufacturing our own is an another debate.
