If you really want to do something, and you’re watching everyone else enjoy it on social media, that takes willpower. You only have so much willpower, so why not use it on something that actually helps someone, like not eating meat or child shave chocolate or whatever?
But you realise you could swap the Nintendo games with child slave chocolate and this discussion would have played out just the same. What makes one boycott more likely to succeed than another? That’s setting aside the fact that you’re assuming everybody will have the same set of social values as you.
Wouldn’t you want to skip Nintendo games so that they stop being culturally relevant? I often hear that piracy is good for media creators in the long run.
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Abstaining from entertainment to no actual end drains valuable mental energy that could be going into constructive solutions.
How does not playing a game drain more valuable mental energy than downloading, installing, and playing it?
If you really want to do something, and you’re watching everyone else enjoy it on social media, that takes willpower. You only have so much willpower, so why not use it on something that actually helps someone, like not eating meat or child shave chocolate or whatever?
But you realise you could swap the Nintendo games with child slave chocolate and this discussion would have played out just the same. What makes one boycott more likely to succeed than another? That’s setting aside the fact that you’re assuming everybody will have the same set of social values as you.
We’re taking about pirating the games, not buying them. Not buying them is still voting with your wallet.
This is the message we were replying to
Yes, the one responding to a suggestion to pirate their games, which directly references piracy in the quote you pasted.
That might be true if there weren’t literally a million other games to play instead.