the "should mind there own damn business" platitude i believe stems
from the personification of action.
lets imagine a neighbour two doors down was abusing their children
wouldn't it be immoral to not intervene?
of course we own and use stuff from immoral regimes. it's in our
interest to be immoral in this fashion.
"Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational,
brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his
own interests are involved - that about sums it up. I'm interested in
the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of
him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of
the nature of man is probably doomed to failure." - stan kubrick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy
"Hypocrisy (or the state of being a hypocrite) is the act of preaching
a certain belief or way of life, but not, in fact, holding these same
virtues oneself. For example, a teacher telling students they should
not plagiarize, while secretly being a plagiarist himself. Hypocrisy
is frequently invoked as an accusation in many contexts.
For linguist and social analyst Noam Chomsky, hypocrisy, defined as
the refusal to "...apply to ourselves the same standards we apply to
others" is one of the central evils of our societ
