lol I think we lost followers over this stupid jkr debate.
i hate that i got baited into arguing about this. I hate that i got baited into talking about jkr at all.
i hate her and her stupid series so fucking much.
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Want and need very much differ for every person, anon, as do our perception of what actions are moral and what actions are immoral.
I have to point out to you though that when you buy Nestle–and let’s say for the sake of argument that you do need to despite their being inconvenient alternatives– when you buy nestle products you’re still weighing your need for food, vs enslaved people’s need for you to not give money to their oppressor.
When you buy the JKR game you are weighing your need for the JKR game vs trans people and jewish people’s need for you to not give money to their oppressor.
Everyone’s going to come out with a different answer for what they feel comfortable with, but both actions do the same kind and amount of real world harm.
Even if you think its easier for someone to not support JKR than it is for you to not support Nestle, in terms of real world actual harm done to people, they are equivalent.
You just feel like it’s easier to excuse yourself for doing the evil of supporting Nestle. Despite the fact that if you buy nestle products over your lifetime you’re giving a lot more money to Nestle than anyone is to Rowling by buying a $60 one time purchase.
But because the amount of real world harm done by both actions is the same, I find it as easy or difficult to excuse either action.
It’s whatever lets you sleep at night.
I always forget the reason that puritans and evangelicals refrain from taking actions they believe are immoral.
Puritans and Evangelicals only refrain from taking immoral actions because they believe that doing those actions literally harms their own personal soul. They think about hurting themselves, instead of about hurting others.
Normal, ethical people refrain from doing immoral actions because they want to refrain from hurting other people.
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imagine assessing morality by asking “does not doing action this harm me?” instead of asking “does doing this action harm someone else?”
And I thought *I* was an evil person. Fucking hell. No wonder some people are so warped.
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You’re assessing harm backwards, anon.
When we assess the harm inherent to an action in terms of morality, we assess the level of harm done to OTHERS, not to ourselves.
The level of harm done to others when you buy a nestle product, and the level of harm done to others when you buy a JK Rowling product are the same.
Some might even argue that financially supporting Nestle does a greater amount of harm to to the world than supporting JK Rowling does. I don’t make that argument, but some people could.
How amazingly self-centered to consider the damage to yourself when calculating harm instead of the damage to others.
Additionally, I’ll go ahead and point out that there are people it might harm to not play the Hogwarts game. There are people, autistic people, mentally ill people, etc, who the level of mental distress they would experience by not playing the game would cause them significant harm.
Do you care about those people?