Do you have to agree with everyone you give your money to? What sort of economy would that be?
Probably a pretty nice one, actually.
Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with?
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Do you have to agree with everyone you give your money to? What sort of economy would that be?
Buy the book on the premise that you want access to the content he spent energy and time to produce. Just like you’d pay to get access to any kind of content that you want to consume because it is the fair thing to do.
Or get it at the library like everyone else said.
Pirating it is not ethical of course, but furthermore it becomes hypocritical and intellectually dishonest if you would criticize some else for pirating content produced by any other author.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah isolating yourself from everyone you disagree with is awesome, truly nothing bad ever comes out of it.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I am fine with isolating myself from evil.
bitcrafter@programming.dev 10 months ago
Ergo we should feel obligated to give money to people who we believe are actively harming the world?
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You are not obligated to read the book.
You should feel obligated to nothing except to remunerate people fairly for their work if you want it.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I do try. I actively boycott shitty companies (for 30 years and counting) and my list is long and swollen.
If more people took action on their principles our systems would be a lot less shitty.
Just because you can’t boycott everything doesn’t mean you should do nothing.