[wptw]

My point was that what some people find offensive, others find perfectly OK. So when you label something as “wrong” based on your personal feelings, that’s fair enough, but it’s bound to come off as hypocritical. That’s why I said “I don’t imagine myself in a position to dictate to my fellow capitalists what’s right and what’s wrong.”

You have your reasons for thinking it’s wrong to sell GLO badges. Others have their reasons for thinking it’s wrong to sell Prada and Spade. To an objective observer, that’s apples and apples. It’s only apples and oranges to YOU because one of them is important to YOU, so you build an argument around why your particular situation or objection is different than the other guy's. That's human nature.

OK, badges have a deep esoteric meaning and not everyone is entitled to them. But fur and sweatshops involve the life and death of living things, which by comparison makes a hunk of gold look pretty trivial.

Where we DO agree is with your proposed strategy for dealing with them when they do come up for auction. I have always advocated quietly rescuing the badges with as little noise as possible. Drama just drives up prices.

wptw