Do you boycott?
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Bakaferret said:
... But I do spread the word of my boycott of Facebook and World of Warcraft? I have even successfully lured away a few people from playing World of Warcraft in favor of playing better games. That has to count for something, right?
Anyhow, if we're going to get into semantics of what the word actually means, a boycott isn't something that a lone individual can really do. A boycott is more of a group effort. Sort of like "playing football". You can't play football completely on your own, you need other players as well, otherwise you're just... Well, kicking a ball on your own.
I don't boycott as i have no loyalty either way to any company. I go to whoever has the best product.
I also don't preach to other people because i don;t like the shit, nor would i honestly try to dissuade people from being a game i don't like unless they came to me asking my opinion. Even then i will tell them frankly what the game is and what you do.
Just because I find something boring or stupid doesn't mean everyone else will.
Mostly i find that despite how everyone screams how evil corporations are, its a crock of shit. Mostly the 'evil' comes from them not being happy when people take there shit for free, and everyone proclaiming them evil has decided that they are owed everything for free. So i find it stupid and openly give them the finger.
Corporations aren't evil, boycott's never amount to anything more then walling yourself off from products that may be what you like, and generally the boycotters don't have the will to stick with it anyways unless its a case of "I don't like it so everyone else shouldn't!!!" which is almost always what i see.
I also don't preach to other people because i don;t like the shit, nor would i honestly try to dissuade people from being a game i don't like unless they came to me asking my opinion. Even then i will tell them frankly what the game is and what you do.
Just because I find something boring or stupid doesn't mean everyone else will.
Mostly i find that despite how everyone screams how evil corporations are, its a crock of shit. Mostly the 'evil' comes from them not being happy when people take there shit for free, and everyone proclaiming them evil has decided that they are owed everything for free. So i find it stupid and openly give them the finger.
Corporations aren't evil, boycott's never amount to anything more then walling yourself off from products that may be what you like, and generally the boycotters don't have the will to stick with it anyways unless its a case of "I don't like it so everyone else shouldn't!!!" which is almost always what i see.
If you want to avoid every company known for dubious business practices, all big brand chocolate (certainly all the chocolate on sale in the UK - we don't get Hershey's but Nestle + Cadbury aren't exactly a crack pairing) is off limits, as are most cosmetics, most designer clothing...Trebort said:Well yes, their dubious business practice was a reason, and yes I do avoid the products you used as an example. Fry's products tent to give me migraines and butterkist popcorn is not very nice so I don't eat it. I also don't like philly.tomtom94 said:Are you boycotting Butterkist popcorn and Fry's and Philadelphia and every single other subsidiary of Kraftbury too?Trebort said:I'm boycotting Cadbury's after it was taken over by a vile American company. I've not eaten or drunk a single Cadbury product.
Seriously, it's just capitalism, I honestly can't understand why people got in a tizz about Cadbury being taken over.
(I can guess your answer is "questionable business practices"?)
OT: I boycott meat companies because I'm a vegetarian.
At its heart, capitalism is about screwing everyone else over so that you can emerge on top.
Basically it irritates me that people are just boycotting Cadbury/Kraft because they're the company in the limelight for their practices at the moment. In the same way lots of people boycotted Nestle when they popped up.
That said, don't get me wrong - I can understand where you're coming from. If it makes you feel good, then great, I feel the same way about my vegetarianism - it's my way of trying to change things.
It's just this strikes me as another "cool to hate stunt".
I boycot Cadburys because they make my favourate chocolate. Kraft produce the crap Americans refer to as Chocolate that tastes nothing like the stuff, barely registering to me as artificial tasting plasticy gunk. The quality of cadbury chocolate will go down the pan until it's as tastless as american chocolate.tomtom94 said:If you want to avoid every company known for dubious business practices, all big brand chocolate (certainly all the chocolate on sale in the UK - we don't get Hershey's but Nestle + Cadbury aren't exactly a crack pairing) is off limits, as are most cosmetics, most designer clothing...Trebort said:Well yes, their dubious business practice was a reason, and yes I do avoid the products you used as an example. Fry's products tent to give me migraines and butterkist popcorn is not very nice so I don't eat it. I also don't like philly.tomtom94 said:Are you boycotting Butterkist popcorn and Fry's and Philadelphia and every single other subsidiary of Kraftbury too?Trebort said:I'm boycotting Cadbury's after it was taken over by a vile American company. I've not eaten or drunk a single Cadbury product.
Seriously, it's just capitalism, I honestly can't understand why people got in a tizz about Cadbury being taken over.
(I can guess your answer is "questionable business practices"?)
OT: I boycott meat companies because I'm a vegetarian.
At its heart, capitalism is about screwing everyone else over so that you can emerge on top.
Basically it irritates me that people are just boycotting Cadbury/Kraft because they're the company in the limelight for their practices at the moment. In the same way lots of people boycotted Nestle when they popped up.
That said, don't get me wrong - I can understand where you're coming from. If it makes you feel good, then great, I feel the same way about my vegetarianism - it's my way of trying to change things.
It's just this strikes me as another "cool to hate stunt".
Nice, let me look up my old files and I'll send the summarized form to you. It's a bit long, I spent the whole year using it as a debate case in '08.crudus said: