Thread: Do You Boycott?
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Old 07-25-2012, 04:08 PM
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For me, it's none of the above.
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The answer is sometimes, but it doesn't depend on how badly I need the service, but the nexus between the company's profits and the action it is taking that I oppose.

The fact that a CEO is donating his own money or endorsing candidates I don't like will not usually cause me to boycott. But the company's discriminatory hiring practices or donations to hateful causes will make me boycott.
Is this how you determine the nexus between profits and actions? Determining the nexus should require research on the profit and how the actions impact the profit.
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