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GTA6 will still sell millions of copies, many to people in threads just like this one that are appalled at RS's action.
It's important to make a distinction between liberals who strive for moral purity through performativity, and people who value human life by recognizing the inequalities in labour and material security under capitalism. Narratives that reproduce the idea that people are just fundamentally impure and can't stick to their values only strengthens liberalism's claim to morality.
I made essentially the same comment on another thread yesterday, but I think it might have gone over most people's heads. That or they didn't want to admit it.
I think it's a bit self-indulgent to consider that this is big-brained or world-shattering to people. You're just repeating the dominant explanation for why these companies can make profit despite their immorality, it isn't challenging or new.
Most people buying it will not know about this
Many would not care
A lot think that it is not their job punishing companies over how they treat their employees
I think it is the government’s job to make laws that empower people taking jobs over people giving jobs, but as well, in my opinion, each and everyone has the responsibility to watch over government that they do the job right
There's no such thing as ethical consumption.
Your point?
E: just want to make clear, the attribution of apathy or nihilism to the general pubic isn't genuine or useful.
Companies can do whatever they want and it literally doesn't matter because they will keep making money
Missing nuance.
The point is people are impressively stupid and impulsive
Ethics are in shambles.
Disagree.
This is the most disheartening reply, but also the most telling.
It's difficult to read this and not feel less empathetic toward you. Such desperation to feel superior without any clear indication that you are invested in actually embodying a set of morals yourself.
If you care, you should take the time to explore inconvenient explanations for why this happens and refuse satisfaction with actionless answers.
I live my life as simply as possible, and I don't feel superior to anyone. Having said that I stand by my reply. Just because it evoked some feeling of shame from you isn't my problem.
"... I don't feel superior to anyone... . ... evoked some feeling of shame from you isn't my problem." You can't even pretend to be an honest person without trying to suggest other people are less morally pure than you. This is not a simple life, it is a dishonest one. I will not be responding again, obviously. There's no conversing with people who lie to themselves.
Ok, bud!
His point is simple enough that you should understand. Use your brain.
Ah. Good luck to you.
This is a good question to ask. This person is not very critical of what they've said and is clearly satisfied with liberal (as in liberalism) explanations for people's behaviour.
Their point is that people are just fundamentally bad and that is why these companies make profit despite an apparently universal condemnation of their actions. It's shallow, inaccurate, and is only useful to feel morally superior to some imagined decadent group that they believe is the source of this problem.