Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mrslave 1418 days ago
It is curious that political action is not first and foremost in our minds, if at all. We take it for granted that all manner of immoral production and consumption will be permitted.

Instead passive and voluntary actions like simply not investing in companies and not buying their products - possibly framed as something more principled like divestment - is our default setting.

3 comments

Yeah, a scenario where everyone's "default setting" is trying to ban everything they consider "immoral" sounds pretty terrible.
Indeed, the first solution to every problem should be one size fits all and involve the implicit or explicit threat of imprisonment or death.
Well political action is being taken in different parts of the world. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audi...