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		<title>Jukeboksi: rm spam, edit</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;rm spam, edit&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 16:49, 2 July 2017&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l8&quot;&gt;Line 8:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*to ignore the &amp;quot;cosmic&amp;quot; is a very bad idea - most people believe in some [[ethical tradition]] that determines the universe in some moral fashion, and obviously their participation in [[moral purchasing]] is required, and they&amp;#039;re to be very strongly encouraged to rigorously apply their moral beliefs to the market - they already do through such labels as [[kosher]] and [[halal]] and [[vegan]]!  we must converge with, not compete with, these overtly moral labels&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*to ignore the &amp;quot;cosmic&amp;quot; is a very bad idea - most people believe in some [[ethical tradition]] that determines the universe in some moral fashion, and obviously their participation in [[moral purchasing]] is required, and they&amp;#039;re to be very strongly encouraged to rigorously apply their moral beliefs to the market - they already do through such labels as [[kosher]] and [[halal]] and [[vegan]]!  we must converge with, not compete with, these overtly moral labels&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*ethical and economic decisions are both supposed to be conscious and positive, yet, they clearly interfere with each other;  to say &amp;quot;ethical purchasing&amp;quot; is to say that one can (thus &amp;quot;must&amp;quot;?) justify a purchasing decision in some ethical code - but the philosopher you argue with is paid by the producer, he is a [[funded troll]], so as soon as you enter this argument, you lose, and he wins, and you are convinced to buy;  (this is why [[SA 8000]] cannot possibly work)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*ethical and economic decisions are both supposed to be conscious and positive, yet, they clearly interfere with each other;  to say &amp;quot;ethical purchasing&amp;quot; is to say that one can (thus &amp;quot;must&amp;quot;?) justify a purchasing decision in some ethical code - but the philosopher you argue with is paid by the producer, he is a [[funded troll]], so as soon as you enter this argument, you lose, and he wins, and you are convinced to buy;  (this is why [[SA 8000]] cannot possibly work)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[individual buying criteria]] do, certainly, express a set of moral views of &quot;right and wrong&quot;;  even if we think [[institutional buying criteria]] are ethical and explicit, we must allow the individual to be moral and implicit. &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;The &lt;/del&gt;great responsibility lies on the purchasing agents &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[http://resumescentre.com/salary-report/buyers-and-purchasing-agents] &lt;/del&gt;and other personnel&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, &lt;/del&gt;who &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;is &lt;/del&gt;directly &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;responsibe &lt;/del&gt;for the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;influence on the group consuming&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[individual buying criteria]] do, certainly, express a set of moral views of &quot;right and wrong&quot;;  even if we think [[institutional buying criteria]] are ethical and explicit, we must allow the individual to be moral and implicit. &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;A &lt;/ins&gt;great responsibility lies on the purchasing agents and other personnel who &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;are &lt;/ins&gt;directly &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;responsible &lt;/ins&gt;for the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;sourcing&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[local purchasing]] is also implicit, a moral belief that &amp;quot;where we are and who we are near is good&amp;quot;;  asking the local to justify itself as most ethical is to create a [[God&amp;#039;s Eye View]] that will necessarily favour the powerful&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[local purchasing]] is also implicit, a moral belief that &amp;quot;where we are and who we are near is good&amp;quot;;  asking the local to justify itself as most ethical is to create a [[God&amp;#039;s Eye View]] that will necessarily favour the powerful&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Veronica Wright at 12:42, 28 June 2017</title>
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		<updated>2017-06-28T12:42:44Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*to ignore the &amp;quot;cosmic&amp;quot; is a very bad idea - most people believe in some [[ethical tradition]] that determines the universe in some moral fashion, and obviously their participation in [[moral purchasing]] is required, and they&amp;#039;re to be very strongly encouraged to rigorously apply their moral beliefs to the market - they already do through such labels as [[kosher]] and [[halal]] and [[vegan]]!  we must converge with, not compete with, these overtly moral labels&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*to ignore the &amp;quot;cosmic&amp;quot; is a very bad idea - most people believe in some [[ethical tradition]] that determines the universe in some moral fashion, and obviously their participation in [[moral purchasing]] is required, and they&amp;#039;re to be very strongly encouraged to rigorously apply their moral beliefs to the market - they already do through such labels as [[kosher]] and [[halal]] and [[vegan]]!  we must converge with, not compete with, these overtly moral labels&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*ethical and economic decisions are both supposed to be conscious and positive, yet, they clearly interfere with each other;  to say &amp;quot;ethical purchasing&amp;quot; is to say that one can (thus &amp;quot;must&amp;quot;?) justify a purchasing decision in some ethical code - but the philosopher you argue with is paid by the producer, he is a [[funded troll]], so as soon as you enter this argument, you lose, and he wins, and you are convinced to buy;  (this is why [[SA 8000]] cannot possibly work)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*ethical and economic decisions are both supposed to be conscious and positive, yet, they clearly interfere with each other;  to say &amp;quot;ethical purchasing&amp;quot; is to say that one can (thus &amp;quot;must&amp;quot;?) justify a purchasing decision in some ethical code - but the philosopher you argue with is paid by the producer, he is a [[funded troll]], so as soon as you enter this argument, you lose, and he wins, and you are convinced to buy;  (this is why [[SA 8000]] cannot possibly work)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[individual buying criteria]] do, certainly, express a set of moral views of &quot;right and wrong&quot;;  even if we think [[institutional buying criteria]] are ethical and explicit, we must allow the individual to be moral and implicit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[individual buying criteria]] do, certainly, express a set of moral views of &quot;right and wrong&quot;;  even if we think [[institutional buying criteria]] are ethical and explicit, we must allow the individual to be moral and implicit&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;. The great responsibility lies on the purchasing agents [http://resumescentre.com/salary-report/buyers-and-purchasing-agents] and other personnel, who is directly responsibe for the influence on the group consuming&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[local purchasing]] is also implicit, a moral belief that &amp;quot;where we are and who we are near is good&amp;quot;;  asking the local to justify itself as most ethical is to create a [[God&amp;#039;s Eye View]] that will necessarily favour the powerful&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*[[local purchasing]] is also implicit, a moral belief that &amp;quot;where we are and who we are near is good&amp;quot;;  asking the local to justify itself as most ethical is to create a [[God&amp;#039;s Eye View]] that will necessarily favour the powerful&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>142.177.104.140: strong arguments *against* the term &quot;ethical purchasing&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;strong arguments *against* the term &amp;quot;ethical purchasing&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;Some people strongly prefer the terminology &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;ethical purchasing&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; to that of &amp;quot;[[moral purchasing]]&amp;quot;.  They believe that:&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Morality tends to be based on assumptions about universal constants. Morality systems rest on a belief in right or wrong. The concepts lack any semantic foundation, so they most often trace their roots to cosmic assumptions...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
However, there are strong arguments against any collusion of the idea of ethics and of purchasing:&lt;br /&gt;
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*there are more objective, embodied, bases for morality which are derived from undisputed (if not undisputable) moral concepts like &amp;quot;[[deforestation]] is bad&amp;quot;;  these ought to be exposed, shared, extended, and augment the &amp;quot;cosmic&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
*to ignore the &amp;quot;cosmic&amp;quot; is a very bad idea - most people believe in some [[ethical tradition]] that determines the universe in some moral fashion, and obviously their participation in [[moral purchasing]] is required, and they&amp;#039;re to be very strongly encouraged to rigorously apply their moral beliefs to the market - they already do through such labels as [[kosher]] and [[halal]] and [[vegan]]!  we must converge with, not compete with, these overtly moral labels&lt;br /&gt;
*ethical and economic decisions are both supposed to be conscious and positive, yet, they clearly interfere with each other;  to say &amp;quot;ethical purchasing&amp;quot; is to say that one can (thus &amp;quot;must&amp;quot;?) justify a purchasing decision in some ethical code - but the philosopher you argue with is paid by the producer, he is a [[funded troll]], so as soon as you enter this argument, you lose, and he wins, and you are convinced to buy;  (this is why [[SA 8000]] cannot possibly work)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[individual buying criteria]] do, certainly, express a set of moral views of &amp;quot;right and wrong&amp;quot;;  even if we think [[institutional buying criteria]] are ethical and explicit, we must allow the individual to be moral and implicit.&lt;br /&gt;
*[[local purchasing]] is also implicit, a moral belief that &amp;quot;where we are and who we are near is good&amp;quot;;  asking the local to justify itself as most ethical is to create a [[God&amp;#039;s Eye View]] that will necessarily favour the powerful&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
That said, it would be impossible to agree on [[faction]] or [[institution]] [[buying criteria]] without some explicit process.  But if we&amp;#039;re going to call &amp;#039;&amp;#039;that&amp;#039;&amp;#039; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;ethical&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, it will also be [[factionally defined]], and so we lose coherence by asking everyone to justify their choices on an ethical level.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For all these reasons, the terminology [[moral purchasing]] has come into use, and that seems to be an optimum for getting the point across.  Everyone knows what &amp;quot;moral&amp;quot; is, even if we are all different, we know what is moral for our selves, even if we got that from a Big Book.  While everyone does not know what is ethical, and is almost always referred to some authority to find out.  This is not what we really want [[Consumerium Services]] to do.  Even [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] is just a way of s/electing some [[Lowest Troll]]s.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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