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Originally Posted by Graham44
I see what your saying but I choose to put my principles, ethics whatever you want to call before my consumerist desires on this issue. Everyone has to draw a line somewhere with companies they deal with, whether that line is based on ethics, price etc we surely all have a point where we would say 'I don't like X so I'm not dealing with Y anymore'? This just so happens to be my line with Amazon. If we didn't companies could end up just running roughshod over us and we would roll over and except it.
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I don't see it as principles and I certainly have my own.
As with everything, I try to apply logic & reason.
And like many I do not like Amazon, and while I might consider the leadership bad or evil, there would be a lot of Amazon employees, the greater majority, that aren't. Likewise for most of the vendors who provide via Amazon.
In fact, Amazon may be the only outlet (store front) for many vendors.
Do you see yourself as bad or evil or all of us other customers, who purchase or purchased from Amazon?
Here's an example of what I had to do a few years ago, back when I bought our first Kobo devices, for my wife and I. We bought those devices locally in a physical store. As with all such devices, they need decent protection, especially from impacts.
The sort of decent cover I had in mind, was only available via online and through Amazon.
I wasn't prepared to compromise on the protection, but I was prepared to compromise on purchasing from Amazon, which I admit was pretty rare for me, ebooks aside.
And that in the end is what it is really about ... compromise. With most stuff in life you often have to do some kind of compromising.
It is whether you go beyond that, is where I see principles and ethics and morals become factors.
Alas we live in a dog eat dog world, and decisions can often be tough to make.
P.S. I just finished reading a crime fiction novel that was mostly focused on organ transplants, and the terrible decision a mother had to make in regard to her 15 year old daughter, when it came to illegal transplant operations. What wouldn't you do for your child. I've always believed in doing the right thing, but boy what a horrible situation to find yourself in.