You are not even the tiniest bit at fault, if you did not know ahead of time.
You must realise that most people are busy working, trying to put food on the rable, raising a family, and helping their local community. Most don't read hours of news and social media every day, and barely hear anything from Twitter, etc.
Those same people buy thousands of products yearly, from food to cars, and have zero time to anaylise all aspects of each purchase. Expecting them to pay attention, to even know about the latest outrage is absurd.
Five years ago, Elon was still considered a shining light of environmental purity. In five years more, opinions may yet change again! Yet you seek to cause real world harm to the lives of people who bought Teslas, when doing so was considered the very best you could do environmentally?!
This is morally bankrupt. This is not acceptable.
Please, I beg you, think on this. Attitudes such as this are harming democracy, not helping.
How is it harming democracy? Do you think that we shouldn't send a message to investors that letting their money get involved in politics is a good way to to lose that money, or do you think that there's a better way to do so?
I'm aware that there wasn't a good way to predict that the power was going to go to Musk's head like it has. It was a very easy mistake to make, I almost made it as well. But if we avoid classifying it as a mistake, then we protect the value of the brand, and then we too are complicit in the harms caused by its owner--whose legitimacy (in the eyes of our myopic leadership) is derived from the value of his brands.
I'll admit that it's a bit of a hack, there are better ways to implement democracy, but can any of the them be used right now?
You must realise that most people are busy working, trying to put food on the rable, raising a family, and helping their local community. Most don't read hours of news and social media every day, and barely hear anything from Twitter, etc.
Those same people buy thousands of products yearly, from food to cars, and have zero time to anaylise all aspects of each purchase. Expecting them to pay attention, to even know about the latest outrage is absurd.
Five years ago, Elon was still considered a shining light of environmental purity. In five years more, opinions may yet change again! Yet you seek to cause real world harm to the lives of people who bought Teslas, when doing so was considered the very best you could do environmentally?!
This is morally bankrupt. This is not acceptable.
Please, I beg you, think on this. Attitudes such as this are harming democracy, not helping.