Nobody said one set is more worthy of respect than another; I’m not interested in making tier lists of suffering today, or frankly, ever. The targets of the military industrial complex are victims, and the young people who enlist to be used as cannon fodder by the rich and powerful are also victims. Both groups suffer and die at the whims of the military-industrial complex.
As others here have said, working for Wal-Mart (or any other capitalist entity) involves being part of chains of exploitation, whether directly or indirectly. The mass production of goods to sell requires a voracious use of resources, and that causes suffering too, through sweatshop labor and other abuses. Just as there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, there isn’t much (if any) ethical employment under capitalism either. It is a systemic issue, and as such I choose to blame the system, not its unwilling victims.
I tried to make it clear that I was reacting to your words and not you, under the good-faith policy of “attack the argument, not the poster.” If I failed in that attempt, I apologize for my error. I’d appreciate it if you’d extend the rest of us in this discussion the same courtesy. Not a single person here has said that anyone “deserves to die” or is “less deserving of life” than another person, and I resent that accusation.
