Far Cry 5 video on feed question: Treatment of Conservatives

[KrspaceT]

contestgamer said:

KrspaceT said:

Simply because I am not 100% blind to the trope Dumbass/Jerkass/Villain/Hypocrite has a point, and I do occasionally want to see if any such point is present in the argument. 

My view would give him money. I simply choose to not personally visit his establishment, and to determine if more than the presentation upfront was disagreeable to me I asked for other opinions. Is it a bad thing to, if one is driving around looking for a salvage yard, to skip over one that has a 'Kneel Before God, stand before the NFL' sign hanging hugely over the entryway and go to one that doesn't have it, or even says 'Kneel before NFL, at least you will still do your job unlike that clerk' if I want to specifically frequent a business with my viewpoints and not go to one that goes against it?

(I actually saw that sort of thing on MS-82. I am not making it up, some salvage yard had that sign up). 

 

Ultimately you're going to a salvage yard to make a purchase for a product or service as a customer. I don't understand why the views of the owner matter as far as the ultimate service you're going to receive? For me it seems like you're trying to silence people you disagree with by preventing them of making a living. The assumption is that if enough people that agree with you stop frequenting the establishment then there will be enough social pressure to force said establishment and person to change their views or not express them. The goal is then to shut down free speech over time by literally starving other viewpoints of cash. That's why personally I believe all purchasing decisions should be based exclusively on the value proposition of said product, because anything else is weaponizing commerce to make certain view points, beliefs and lifestyles socially unacceptable.

How a business looks or presents itself is as much a part of the decision to partake in it as the product. Let's say there are two pizza places of equal pizza quality, but the closer one happened to play Country Music loudly while the other one did not. 

it is as valid a choice to go farther to avoid the music as it is to go to the closer one despite country music. 

Money talks, and it is also endorsement. To spend money at that salvage yard that quite visibly displays a viewpoint like that is to fund, if not support, that viewpoint. I am simply speaking with my money, same as we as gamers would speak with our money on controversial or good games.