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You are responsible for your actions. What you fund, you encourage.



Pretty sure then as a tax paying citizen that I'm responsible for drone assassinations etc., so by comparison the entire Blizzard drama would be pretty low on the priority list by that logic.


It’s low, sure, but also much easier to do: you’re legally required to pay taxes and political change takes years, but you can simply choose to save money.


> to save money

Or to spend them elsewhere: https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v12/. (No games there yet, but I hope they can be added.)


The logic remains valid,

and according to your interpretation stealing a car seems "not a big deal" because it comes after a murder. (They are disconnected events, so to relate them is just a mental perspective - their gravity is independent. There is no «priority» forgiving your actions, it is no excuse).


> and according to your interpretation stealing a car seems "not a big deal" because it comes after a murder.

In my above example I would be guilty of both murder AND stealing cars, so yeah, I think the murder part would be a much bigger deal.


> the murder part would be a much bigger deal

Which is irrelevant, because it does not reduce the absolute value of the other crime.

"Y is a much bigger deal than X" cannot produce "X is not a big deal".


You don't have much choice regarding taxes. Your choice to buy something is a totally different matter.




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