Buying Eco-friendly Goods Makes You Evil.

[Blib]

http://www.walletpop.co.uk/2010/03/23/buying-eco-f...

article said:

Green consumers are mean consumers, according to new research.

Apparently, people only have so much niceness to go around, and if you blow it all on buying eco-friendly goods, you're going to be pretty nasty about everything else.

In fact, you're going to go out and cheat or steal from other people. The research team at the University of Toronto called it 'compensatory ethics'.

According to Nina Mazar, who led the study, "People act less altruistically and are more likely to cheat and steal after purchasing green products as opposed to conventional products."

Thanks goodness I don't bother with the eco stuff. It's better for my soul to avoid it.

[Digga]

Which perhaps explains why greens are, well green with envy, whenever they see people driving fast or expensive cars, or - in the case of bankers - earning large sums.

[900T-R]

1) People like to balance out what they take and what they give. it's only natural. If you agree to pay more for less (usefulness and/or fulfilment) for the sake of being green you might indeed think you're being entitled to being a bit more selfish elsewhere (or the other way round? ).

2) It's been my observation that moral standards of any kind serve more as a way to justify ones feeling of being morally superior to others than a genuine interest in the 'good cause' itself. I've been in lefty do-gooder circles long enough in my younger days to acknowledge that these are largely populated by folks whose behaviour towards others is pretty dreadful (to balance things out, the same can be said for - for instance - religiously inspired right-wingers).

Which writer/philosopher was it again who once said "Morality is whatever we demonstrate to people we loathe"? - IME that's spot-on.

Edited by 900T-R on Thursday 8th April 15:11

[RichardD]

900T-R said:

1) People like to balance out what they take and what they give. it's only natural. If you agree to pay more for less (usefulness and/or fulfilment) for the sake of being green you might indeed think you're being entitled to being a bit more selfish elsewhere (or the other way round? ).
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Seems pretty spot on to me. Since saving money with used vegetable oil with one car I have starting feeling that I need a bigger V8 for the other .

[turbobloke]

RichardD said:

900T-R said:

1) People like to balance out what they take and what they give. it's only natural. If you agree to pay more for less (usefulness and/or fulfilment) for the sake of being green you might indeed think you're being entitled to being a bit more selfish elsewhere (or the other way round? ).
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Seems pretty spot on to me. Since saving money with used vegetable oil with one car I have starting feeling that I need a bigger V8 for the other .

Same thing with reds greens only instead of the chip fat it's the chips - when one shoulder is weighed down by a growing envy chip, the other shoulder chip must be grown to compensate, this is called well-balanced submarxism greenism.

[T89 Callan]

I only steal fairtrade goods...