See, I don’t really agree with any of this. I am attacking the post, not the poster here.
The virtue or lack of any purchasing decision, and the existence of any company, I think typically is complicated and multifaceted, as most people’s lives are thought to be, at least until 2022. Whether Home Depot or Loews overall is a virtuous company or not SHOULD be multifaceted and not simply be checked by what someone may know about the CEO.
In my own life last night I did some charity work with one of my kids. At the instigation of my church (bad, according to some here) for the benefit of a public school (good, according to some here.) So judge away, or not. I have no idea how effective or necessary what we are doing is. I hope it was better than doing nothing, but sometimes such efforts are wasted. And we could have spent our time doing something else, or doing more, or whatever.
Virtue should be more than just a dopamine hit. A lot of what is passing for virtue here I view as nothing more than a dopamine hit. It feels virtuous to shun and shame, the person gets their hit and so they do it. Do people here really think that no Republicans have ever saved anyone from drowning? Is that what you truly believe? Or is the answer “yes, they may have in the past, but it’s 2022 and it’s a new normal, not anymore” that is so implied in some people’s attitudes?
If I need help I might have to take it from whomever I can get it from. Like the story of the Good Samaritan, it matters what the person does, not the label they have. But we’re all past that now, in 2022 we’ve finally got good and evil sorted out permanently. It’s a dopamine hit.