Allegory wrote:
Anymore than people railing against illegal immigrants daily eating the produce picked by them? It's pretty much impossible to go through the day without using something made by a huge corporation or an illegal immigrant.
That's a poor comparison though. That person would be eating the same produce (probably for the same price) whether it was picked by an illegal immigrant or not. No one argues that the solution to the illegal immigration problem is to tear down the industries which hire them. On the flip side though, the very banking systems which the protesters are against and the profit motive of the corporations they lend to, directly cause products like that laptop to exist.
If the protesters were limiting their protests to only actions which are *actually* illegal (rather than wildly labeling anything they don't like as such), I wouldn't have a problem with them (most people wouldn't). But they seem to be protesting a whole range of completely legal actions based apparently solely on the fact that those engaged in them make a profit.
I'll also point out that those railing about illegal immigration don't generally blame the immigrants for the problem. Just as the banks play the game based on the rules that are set for them, so do those immigrants. As long as we have a porous border and dramatically different economic potentials for labor, they're going to take the very logical and reasonable actions they do. No one can or should blame them for that. We should blame the folks who set things up that way (or at least fight hard to keep them that way). Similarly, you shouldn't blame the banks for investing in something which the government rigged the system to make profitable. You blame the government for playing games with our financial system in order to achieve the social goal of helping poor people own homes.
But that would be applying a consistent set of principles to each issue, and we can't have that, can we!