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And yes, it does make me better because I am not directly doing it. I would rather buy a fur coat than kill and skin something. It's not a whole lot better, but it is better.


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No, it's WORSE, because the fact that you disassociate yourself from the process means that you indirectly conttibute to more of it than you otherwise would if you had to do it yourself.

Would you eat AS MUCH meat if you had to kill it all yourself?

Would you wear fur (instead of cotton or wool) if you had to skin it yourself?

Would you eat as much chicken if you had to wring every chicken's neck?

I'll bet you wouldn't.

Therefore, by removing yourself from the actual process, yet supporting it financially, you actually do cause more of it than you would otherwise.

The same of course holds true of wearing cotton or wool: by buying it you support the process of harvesting and weaving it.

So your statement is based on emotion rather than reason. Think about it.