[Levitz]

You can draw that type of criticism with any boycott though. Does whoever cleans the office at Lockheed Martin deserve to be punished for the actions of the company?

The point is to create repercussions for a country, that's going to affect someone, sure, but that's the point. Same as why people don't generally care about random Chinese or Russian companies when people decide to boycott those.

[thephyber]

Moving companies is far lower friction than changing nationality.

Ethics are relative and have tradeoffs. How many innocent people are you willing to hurt to change the behavior of the IdF / Israel’s Oslo Area C policies / Netanyahu’s government coalition?

If you are too sloppy with the splash damage, how are you any different than the IdF or Hamas? Would you even punish Stripe for Israel’s military/government behavior because you read some unsourced comment on social media?

I would rather target boycotts to the most precise entity, within reason, so the entity knows what they are being punished for and what change in behavior would change the boycott to a non-boycott.

If you don’t set an objective standard, then you will always be subject to your own emotions or a mob mentality.

[sneak]

That’s just because they haven’t thought about it enough. Sanctions are unjust.

People’s grandmothers in Russia who can’t get their chemo drugs right now are no different than if your grandma couldn’t get her meds because Bush invaded Iraq.