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Hi everyone,
I think we can all agree that stealing is wrong. But, I just wanted to know if your conscience, sense of right and wrong, affects your shopping. Where do you draw the line? I'm going to list some scenarios, and I just wanted to get an idea what everyone thought of them. Let's assume that you don't have to worry about getting caught. Would you consider all of them wrong, and something you would never do:
a) switching the pants on a suit/pant combo so they'll fit you. or, switching shoes so you'll get 2 diff sized shoes for your feet so they'll fit you.
b) switching tags on items, so that you can purchase something for a lower price
c) using someone's employee discount, which you did not earn, to puchase something
d) hiding something before a sale, so that you can come back later and purchase it for the sale price. We're assuming that the store doesn't have pre-sale.
e) wearing fur. I know this isn't popular in men's fashion, but let's say those full length fur coats from the Harvard-Yale games became popular again.
f) buying clothes from a country that is repressive, so that this money helps to prop up a dictorship. Or, buying clothes from a region where you know that the working conditions are very exploitative and that workers get paid just a pittance. I think this is referring to probably to every non NATO country.
h) how about buying products from companies that use child labor. Didn't nike have that problem. All i remember is that Air Jordan said that it wasn't his problem. Imagine if Kathy Lee Gifford had said that.
i) Selling, buying 2nd hand items like on EBay. Before downloading, weren't singers complaining about how they weren't getting paid for their CDs sold by stores for used CDS. I think Garth Brooks made a fuss about this when he was the King. Can you use that same argument for when we buy clothes on Ebay.
Thanks
I think we can all agree that stealing is wrong. But, I just wanted to know if your conscience, sense of right and wrong, affects your shopping. Where do you draw the line? I'm going to list some scenarios, and I just wanted to get an idea what everyone thought of them. Let's assume that you don't have to worry about getting caught. Would you consider all of them wrong, and something you would never do:
a) switching the pants on a suit/pant combo so they'll fit you. or, switching shoes so you'll get 2 diff sized shoes for your feet so they'll fit you.
b) switching tags on items, so that you can purchase something for a lower price
c) using someone's employee discount, which you did not earn, to puchase something
d) hiding something before a sale, so that you can come back later and purchase it for the sale price. We're assuming that the store doesn't have pre-sale.
e) wearing fur. I know this isn't popular in men's fashion, but let's say those full length fur coats from the Harvard-Yale games became popular again.
f) buying clothes from a country that is repressive, so that this money helps to prop up a dictorship. Or, buying clothes from a region where you know that the working conditions are very exploitative and that workers get paid just a pittance. I think this is referring to probably to every non NATO country.
h) how about buying products from companies that use child labor. Didn't nike have that problem. All i remember is that Air Jordan said that it wasn't his problem. Imagine if Kathy Lee Gifford had said that.
i) Selling, buying 2nd hand items like on EBay. Before downloading, weren't singers complaining about how they weren't getting paid for their CDs sold by stores for used CDS. I think Garth Brooks made a fuss about this when he was the King. Can you use that same argument for when we buy clothes on Ebay.
Thanks