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by djcannabiz 1435 days ago
at this point it feels like its immoral to not pirate AAA games. its kinda like buying products that contain palm oil. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_oil#Social_and_environmen...
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I know that this wasn't the main point of your post, but palm oil production has actually become substantially more defensible in the past decade (i.e. deforestation and worker exploitation are by far the exception instead of the rule).

All that to say that the moral thing to do might change with time.

you can rip my cetyl alcohol based cleanser products from my cold dead hands..
i am definitely a bit of a hypocrite here- in most of my hair products there are ingredients that use palm oil as feedstock. I just try to avoid it in food products.
yeah when I researched what cetyl alcohol is it actually made me feel bad but what am I going to do... there's not an alternative that works for me