...Which is why you probably will choose not to eat those burgers and will spend your money on more expensive products and that's fine. Other people might have less money to spend and they'll look for the 'biggest bang for their buck'
No, that's not fine for me. Basic human decency doesn't stop at the middle class.
Why should poor people eat a subpar and dangerous food just because a chain wants to maximize their profits? Are they less human?
Nobody is forcing anyone to eat at McD. For an entire family I think it'll be more expensive than cooking a normal meal. Besides, the average customer for McD is not the poor, it's the middle class. http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/13/mcdonalds-biggest-custom...
Of course not, but most people on this planet don't believe that one human is just as valuable as another, a homeless drunk just as valuable as Einstein.
Well, if there's someone that is not as valuable as another, is people thinking like this.
Einstein contributions to science might be more valuable than a homeless drunks, but the homeless drunk is just as valuable a life as anybody's.
(Not to mention, if we're looking at the "total cost of ownership" so to speak, the homeless drunk's theories weren't used in making stuff used to kill 250000 innocent people and that can wipe out the whole earth several times).
I agree, just pointing out that most people don't think like this. Even people who have read the chapter called "Your Work Is Not Your Worth" from David Burns' classic Feeling Good book about depression can have serious trouble grasping the fundamental fallacy at play in associating the worth of a human with their actions, achievements, and bank account.
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No, that's not fine for me. Basic human decency doesn't stop at the middle class.
Why should poor people eat a subpar and dangerous food just because a chain wants to maximize their profits? Are they less human?
Nobody is forcing anyone to eat at McD. For an entire family I think it'll be more expensive than cooking a normal meal. Besides, the average customer for McD is not the poor, it's the middle class. http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/13/mcdonalds-biggest-custom...
Of course not, but most people on this planet don't believe that one human is just as valuable as another, a homeless drunk just as valuable as Einstein.
Well, if there's someone that is not as valuable as another, is people thinking like this.
Einstein contributions to science might be more valuable than a homeless drunks, but the homeless drunk is just as valuable a life as anybody's.
(Not to mention, if we're looking at the "total cost of ownership" so to speak, the homeless drunk's theories weren't used in making stuff used to kill 250000 innocent people and that can wipe out the whole earth several times).
I agree, just pointing out that most people don't think like this. Even people who have read the chapter called "Your Work Is Not Your Worth" from David Burns' classic Feeling Good book about depression can have serious trouble grasping the fundamental fallacy at play in associating the worth of a human with their actions, achievements, and bank account.