ACORN

[ShadowHM]

The socialist aspect here is that you are asking companies, and people to intentionally not buy an equal quality product that is offered at a lower price. Price rules the market, and if you can undercut your competition you win. Here lies the temptation to be unethical, and it is only law and enforcement that will insure companies and people remain ethical.

So, if I understand that correctly, you don't see at all how any person could or even should take anything other than price and quality into consideration on purchase decisions? :unsure:

I quite agree on the topic of laws, regulation and enforcement. If there is a way to cheat and win, it will be used - that is part of the human condition. But it is equally true that you, as an individual, need not support those who do. You can become informed and you can make your own choices. The spectrum of human behaviour includes altruism too. You don't have to resign yourself to the lowest common denominator (or the lowest bidder).

If you feel powerless and surrender to 'the enormity of the problem', then you damn well are powerless. But you are choosing that; don't try to claim that it is inevitable.