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Originally Posted by thymebalm
If you can live your life in a world where someone can own a company and somehow not be affiliated with it, than so be it. I don't think it's silly to ask myself as a consumer if I should support a business who's ownership does something I am against.
The Calgary Flames are not Imperial Metals.
Even so, the profits still line the pockets of Edwards. I don't think that's a silly connection to make. That's just the reality of the situation.
If I support the Flames financially (at all) then I'm supporting Edwards financially (not that he'd ever need my money). If I support Edwards financially, that means I support him ethically, and until I see and hear the appropriate response from him, I'm not sure I can do that.
It's not emotions, its ethics. And I loved the last line of your comment, you must win a lot of schoolyard arguments with that one. "and no matter what you say next, I'm right!"
It's funny you say "this has nothing to do with the Flames" and then you say "find out everything Edwards is invested in and boycott it"... he owns the Flames... that's where the whole dilemma started... no?
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Unless you are 100% self-sufficient and independent from the rest of the world, you are unable to separate yourself from things you ethically disagree with. You choose to draw the line at the Flames, your choice. But if I wanted I could pick apart most aspects of your life - and as good a set of choices that I think I make myself, you could pick them apart as well.