Also, I would like to point out that your description of the "consumer-corporate relationship" is too simplistic to be relevant.
When a corporation produces a widget, it is not just the customer who buys the widget - the consumer - that is affected. For example: If that corporation is dumping toxic waste into a river that is upstream from farmland in order to produce that widget, then the corporation is also affecting the health of a great many people that do not have a "consumer-corporate relationship" with the company.
You have based your whole argument around the bizarre straw man that "blaming others for my own problems is bad". But when a farmer's crop fails because his irrigation system is clogged up with toxic crap from upstream, or a thousand people fall ill further down the food chain, it makes perfect sense to blame the "other", the company in this case, for dumping toxic shit into the river, and to seek legal action and some policy change that will STOP the company from doing so in the future, and perhaps even compel the company to pay for the cleanup effort.
If you want to classify that farmer's action as "blaming others for my problems", then you can go ahead and do so, but you will be watering down your own principle to the point where it is useless.
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Date: 2011-11-16 05:24 pm (UTC)When a corporation produces a widget, it is not just the customer who buys the widget - the consumer - that is affected. For example: If that corporation is dumping toxic waste into a river that is upstream from farmland in order to produce that widget, then the corporation is also affecting the health of a great many people that do not have a "consumer-corporate relationship" with the company.
You have based your whole argument around the bizarre straw man that "blaming others for my own problems is bad". But when a farmer's crop fails because his irrigation system is clogged up with toxic crap from upstream, or a thousand people fall ill further down the food chain, it makes perfect sense to blame the "other", the company in this case, for dumping toxic shit into the river, and to seek legal action and some policy change that will STOP the company from doing so in the future, and perhaps even compel the company to pay for the cleanup effort.
If you want to classify that farmer's action as "blaming others for my problems", then you can go ahead and do so, but you will be watering down your own principle to the point where it is useless.