I understand your perspective on buying Nike shoes. So boycott them. And use your words to try to convince others to agree with you and join you in that cause. And if they don't voluntarily go along with you, just accept it. If you believe you have an obligation not to buy Nike shoes, that doesn't extend to having the right to use violence against other people to make them participate in your boycott.
No, you are just running away from your argument. You don't want people to boycott because you are all about promoting the benefits of cheap slave labor made goods. That's a nice utopia in your head that doesn't exist in the real world. People respond to incentives and I bet you would even be against forcing a company to disclose on a product label their exploitive labor practices.
I never said I don't want people to boycott.
Furthermore, what's all this Marxist nonsense about "exploitive business practices"? Since when are employers not supposed to exploit employers? That's what employees are for. People actively seek out the opportunity to exchange their labor for money, which is, by definition, being exploited. More power to them.
OK, go around the world like some kind of global cop and use force against the people actually doing it. Or take up a collection to pay people to do that for you. And once again, take on this responsibility yourself. If you have neighbors that don't want to help you, too bad. They don't have to, an it's not your right to make them.
No you have to use force against the people profiting from it so they can't.
Well if you don't then they keep profiting off of slavery.
. We have freedom of religion. Again, go right ahead. If you believe that you have this obligation, then put your money where your mouth is. And if your neighbors don't want to help you, then leave them alone and do this along with others who voluntarily join you.
I do put my money where my mouth is. This is the government I fund with my money.
The problem is, that's not voluntary. That government makes other people put their money where your mouth is too, whether they want to or not.
It is voluntary. You can renounce your citizenship.
What you are calling "ethical business practices" didn't come about because of some newly arisen need for them. They came about because of the newly arisen possibility of them. Until very recently in history, it was taken for granted by the entire human race that every moment of human existence was a struggle for survival for almost everybody on the planet. The possibility to live to see the next year required exposing oneself to constant danger in back breaking endless labor, and getting one's children to help do it. Capitalism didn't bring about those conditions that we in America today think we deserve to be free of just by existing. Capitalism made it possible for large numbers of people to escape them for the first time in history. Yes, Marxism arose in response to that, but not as a correction to some harm done by capitalism, but out of envy due to the fact that some people enjoyed more improvements than others.
Karl Marx created Marxism because he wanted to destroy capitalism.
