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Most noteworthy for me is the fact that more Americans think that porn (52%) and homosexuality (39%) are wrong than spanking children (23%) and being ultra wealthy (18%).
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https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/what-do-americans-consider-immoral/
I'm vegan. I can't eliminate My unethical consumption, but I can reduce it. I can make better choices. They might not be good choices, but they're better than just participating in the system.
I'm also making an effort to use Indigenous bush medicine in consultation with the local Indigenous clans. I've consulted with the totem holder about the plant I use for My allergies. That way, I'm not engaging with capitalism at all to treat My allergies. I'm using the traditional communist economy. Medicine literally grows out of the ground for free all over the place, and all I need to use it is knowledge and respect. Knowledge and respect are free!
And how you personally choose to reduce it is your prerogative. Regardless, you cannot eliminate it entirely so you should not be arbitrarily judged for the ways you do or do not limit yourself.
As well, it is great that you have the opportunities to choose alternatives but you also need to realize not everyone has those opportunities or the disposition to utilize them so they also should not be judged for that. Knowledge is free but the education to know how to appropriately and effectively use that knowledge without inadvertently harming yourself is usually not free barring extenuating circumstances, such as yourself having a local indigenous clan willing to teach you. Medicine grows out the ground but so do poisons and many medicines are also poisonous if prepared improperly.
If people have the opportunity and ability to utilize alternative, ethical sources then, by all means, they should do so but I'm not going to sit and arbitrarily make judgement about someone outright if they don't. I don't know them, their capabilities or circumstances.
Fair point but I want to offer a correction. We don't have tribes where I live, we have clans. Tribes and clans are different. Tribes have a chief, clans are governed by consensus. That's how it was explained to me by My Indigenous teachers, the words are likely different in other countries.
Also, I consider a person's disposition within their control. If someone doesn't know the issues with meat, that's fair. But once they've had a decent conversation with a vegan like Myself, it comes down to their willingness to learn. A vegan diet is pretty cheap. Bread, potatoes, rice, noodles, pasta, all the cheapest foods are vegan. I know what poverty is, I've been homeless. I had to eat meat when I was homeless because it's what they served at the shelter. I let My ethics wane for survival. But they waxed again when I got back on My feet, and I feel entitled to judge anyone who has it better than Me, had a chance to learn the facts, and isn't vegan. Which is most people in My country. At a certain point, ignorance becomes a choice. We've all got rectangles in our pockets containing the sum of knowledge.
Apologies, my assumption is that tribes/clans is synonymous enough to be used interchangeably but with that explanation I'll change it.
True, but my opinion is that if you are not directly doing the harm, then the degree of separation from the act of harm is entirely arbitrary per individual. I'll only judge someone for the harm they directly cause. The root of the problem is still the system, not the consumers within that system who have little to no power to directly influence it. The animals have already been killed in unethical fashion. Letting their body rot on a shelf instead of it being nourishment for someone is far more disrespectful towards the animal that had to die. We all have only so much we can do before we make concessions for convenience and how each individual decides that is up to them so long as they do not directly commit harm in doing so.
Like, even if it doesn't sell, there are still enough people that do not even object to the horrible treatment of these animals that companies, through the capitalist system, will just mitigate the impact on their profits by having it subsidized. They already account for waste, so they will simply adjust to it. There are also plenty of arguments against agricultural practices to how many of these vegan alternatives are produced themselves that you're not actually mitigating harm, you're just choosing a different product that was produced through equally harmful and unethical practices.
So, no, none of us are able to judge the other because, at the end of the day, we still exist in the capitalist system unless you and the community which produces your goods is entirely self sustaining and independent of the capitalist system. So we shouldn't waste our time judging each other and instead focus on building and providing these alternatives to people within our local communities, through intensive and organized labor action, where we actually have the ability to control and affect it.
And those rectangles of knowledge have just as much misinformation as they do information and the majority of people do not have the education or cultural upbringing to influence their perspective of said (mis)information needed to be able to accurately tell the difference.