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[Scootaloo]

14. You're not making a very strong argument

When people make the argument you're presenting, you're basically making the point that there are only two options; Either total luddism, living in the woods and stabbing deer with sticks, or blithe acceptance of a oppressive and damaging economic system.

Basically, it's like you're saying "you can either accept the necessity of child slavery to make your shoes, or you can go barefoot," as if the abuse of children is the only way to make a shoe.

Yes, we are participants in this destructive system, but it's the participation of captives in the schemes of their captors. I'd love to have a non-polluting energy system. The fossil fuels industry, and their bought and paid servants in Washington, do not allow this to become a reality. I would love for more of my products to be made with full consideration to human dignity, but despite years of protest and counter-actions (through the creation of companies that engage in fair trade and humanitarian practices) the offenders remain offensive.

Presumably because of people who think that no amount of human suffering is ever worth spending a few dollars more on a shoe.