The only thing that makes that stop is people choosing not to do it or let it happen, when otherwise they could choose to act in their own interests either to collude with violence or to exploit themselves.

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For that matter, a free society is the product of a series of decisions not to exploit each other or let ourselves be exploited. There is always material advantage to be gained benefiting from the exploitation available more easily to some than others.

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Don't mistake legitimate critiques of liberal individualism into a full dematerialisation of your own choices in life. Movements are just gatherings of people making choices.

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"there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" really serves more as an excusatory framework for some people than it does as an explanatory framework for the limitations of personal choice.

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Personal choice is genuinely a limited means of engaging with massive established social hierarchies and economic architectures we had no choice in inheriting and it is also the quantum of leverage each of us holds within these systems to engage with and dismantle social violence.

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