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by aristofun 702 days ago
If you make generic judgement about better/worse — you can't take only one of many sides of the story.

Every human being produces a lot of waste - natural and synthetic.

Does it make every human being morally and ethically bad?

I follow the same logic that you implied in your comment.

If you're going to solve for example plastic problem — would you need money and other resources for it? Where those money gonna come from if not from the biggest taxpayers?

Shutting down plastic producing companies is not a solution because — you solve plastic (and maybe few more) problem, but you A. reduce the quality of life B. yes, increase unemployment C. reduce wealth and money that could be invested in solving more problems than originally created.

Therefore it is extremely stupid to call a company generally "bad" just based on some environment related variable and ignoring thousands of others.

Don't you see how complex and fragile this good/evil balance is?