Do we recycle, smoke, eat processed food, use excessive electricity, drive big gas guzzler cars, invest in defence companies, use loopholes to pay less tax, and any number of other things that affect any number of other people?
Nestle, Turners, Rio Tinto, Balfours, Coca Cola, Primark, Pfizer *insert big firm here* all affect MILLIONS of people (for worse) and we still buy their stuff regularly in one way or another. And we're not talking a bit of cash here or there or a bit of grief for a lost loved one, but displaced villages and peoples, scores of people used as test subjects and death, prostitution, trafficking, neglect, poisoning of homes and habitats and overall abuse of some type on an enormous scale. Real crimes against humanity.
I'm being obtuse here, I know, but only to illustrate that everything we do has a wide ranging effect on people all over the world. And we are ignorant to the majority of the suffering as a result of western progress and news suppression.
Budgie, I don't disagree I really don't but at the same time, would you enforce that someone wear the leathers etc if given the chance?
What next?
"No Sir, motorcycles cost the state far too much in healthcare and paperwork so we are outlawing them altogether for the safety of everyone. In the back of the van please Sir."
We are known as organ donors by default in many hospitals no matter what gear you wear. All these people are still affected. Death is death whether you are a power ranger *ahem* or not and even the best leathers won't avoid a broken limb in many cases.
