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I've been thinking about social responsibility a lot this week. This is partly because I've been reading Michael Pollard's excellent The Omnivore's Dilemma which is about the consequences of food. Also, causes and activisms get discussed a lot in the LJ space, so whenever I read through my list I encounter the question: how shall I live in light of

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[hydrozoa]

i always wondered about that. how you felt about working where you do.

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Not much better or worse than my other jobs. I've never worked for anyone "positive." My newspaper sold phone sex, I worked for a doctor who did questionable animal research, and my dot-com jobs were either whorehouses or failed whorehouses of some kind. The hospital was indeed a big building full of people helping each other, but the people-grinder american medical-industrial establishment was a particularly disgusting sausage factory. This job? The guys down one hall are Nazis, and the guys down the other hall are subversive satirists, and my group is neither.

I agree

[thesquirrelfish]

I think this is a very wise approach and written much better than my attempts to express the same idea.

[fimmtiu]

Wow. Awesome essay. I've been grinding my gears on some of this stuff myself, and it's great to have it suddenly expressed in such a lucid fashion.

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Vegetarianism strikes me as a place where doing your best does so much good that not always doing it perfectly shouldn't cause huge shame.

[threepunchstuff]

This is a great post