[ethbro]

My point is more that the zeitgeist is inherently political.

Ergo, merely by selling to the market and interacting with it, companies make political choices.

These choices may be more or less obvious, but they're always there. The apolitical company is a myth.

Note: I am using political in the greater, rather than "red vs blue" sense.

[davesmith1983]

This is nonsense. This is the same warped view of the world along the lines of "the person is political" and is a thought worm that has to be binned.

I don't buy bog roll as a political decision, I buy it so I can wipe my arse.

[ethbro]

You may not. But others certainly do. Otherwise recycled toilet paper wouldn't be stocked.

Beyond that, to use the same analogy, one brand might be dump their bleaching agents in the ocean.

It's up to the companies if they want to trumpet their behavior loudly or say nothing about it. And it's up to consumers if they care about whatever type of behavior is involved.

[davesmith1983]

Well that is up to other people. It doesn't make the company inherently political.

This logic as previously stated is a horrible mind worm that infests everything and ruins a great many things that are just useful (razor blades) or fun (video games).

Politics is a set of power games done by people we call politicians and promoted by their activists. It has nothing to do with right and wrong.

[ethbro]

I would define politics as the myriad of ways we reach agreement over differences without shooting each other.

Without politicians, politics would still exist.

[davesmith1983]

It is an overly broad definition.

[ethbro]

And so we've arrived at the crux of our disagreement. If only politics were so clean.