Boycotts

[TracerBullet]

Boycotts are the greatest power of the people. It is far more effective than political voting. All organizations will wither without income.

I do not think boycotts are a form of bullying. Boycotting is choosing not to purchase from a business. Bullying is personal. Some of the people against Chick-fil-a are engaging in bullying by insulting people and calling them hateful.

Yes boycotts are completely effective. In fact they are the only social act guaranteed to be effective. The problem is you have to actually boycott (so you have to have had trade that you can take away) and you have to have sufficient numbers. The problem in modern America is that most people ,including Christians and conservative Christians, are not willing to actually sacrifice their small pleasures despite their life of ease. It might be surprising but it seems to me the people with the least are more often willing to sacrifice what little they have for principle.

Not many businesses can survive a twenty percent reduction in revenue. This is not hard to achieve if you have numbers on your side. Of course if the issue is one where people are split then the business your side removes might be replaced by the other side. Therefore more important than a boycott is getting people to see an issue properly. You need to get them to understand the morality and to take morality seriously. In my experience most people neither understand morality nor take it very seriously, at least in the realm of sexual morality.

Boycotts are right because you should not support evil in any way if you can help it and no one is entitled to your trade.

I think the reason is simple why those who call for boycotts are offended when others call for boycotts of their organizations. The people calling for the boycott think they are right and in being right are being just. Being against their side is unjust. Most people do not have anything like a live and let live mentality. Most people want to force their beliefs and their lifestyle on you. Because this is so it is important to be strong for your advocacy of what is right because the other side will be working hard to force you to live their way. There is simply no room for complacency in this world.

Since the national Organization of marriage called for a boycott of Starbucks for their contributions to marriage equality in the state of Washington Starbucks stock has increased in value by about 10%

 

[maryjk]

Boycotting isn’t in and of itself bigotry, but it is certainly possible that a person could choose to boycott because of bigotry. A person is always within their right to boycott anyone, but a person can be within their right and still not be right. I personally don’t think it is right to boycott someone because of what they think. I believe a person has the right to think whatever truth they know as long as their actions don’t infringe upon the rights of others. If Chick-fil-a (for example) was actively descriminating against people by refusing to hire or serve them, then I could see the reason for the boycott. That doesn’t seem to be the case, though one poster did state that it was in his personal experience. The question is this. Does the owner of the company have the right to have a religious and/or political opinion? If we say that he does, then it can’t be right to boycott his company because he has not done anything wrong. The same would apply to other companies as well.

If you want to boycott or not, doesn’t matter to me.

I was explaining to edwest2 the post he was questioning.