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by danudey 4111 days ago
Using drugs is victimless, but given that a lot of drug manufacture and cultivation is directly linked to organized crime, buying drugs is only victimless if you know for a fact that your drugs are ethically grown, fair trade, etc. Which you don't.
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By that logic, there's a good chance you're a perpetrator of slavery due to the labor that put your computer and/or its constituent parts together...
For me, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that both you and the parent are right.
But it's easier to pretend that they are both wrong.
I would agree that buying a computer who uses conflict minerals is not a victimless act. I find that a lot of what we do in modern society is not victimless even though we like to pretend it is.