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CW - Exotic food not for the faint of heart Late last year one of my colleagues took a trip to Vietnam. As a souvenir for her colleagues, sh
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- You hit it on the head with "me changing whether I drink the Kopi Luwak in the pantry or not is an adjustment that makes no impact whatsoever." I think the same can be said about a lot of things we do - we want to do the right thing, but we're also painfully cognisant that the single action that we take as an individual has almost no impact. (Even as I write this I wonder if I'm aggrandising. Let's be truthful - most of our actions most of the time have exactly zero impact.)
And yet, I would argue that your act of writing and sharing this article has created some impact, however small. When I was in Bali last year I too picked up a packet of Kopi Luwak and enjoyed it when I returned to Australia. I didn't know about the poor captive civets. (Or, again, if I'm being perfectly truthful, that knowledge was easily attainable if I'd turned my mind to it. But I didn't turn my mind to it, I didn't Google, I didn't think, out of wilful ignorance or insensitivity or whatever reason.)
And now, reading this article, I share that sense of vague guilt and responsibility and question myself about what I, as an individual, ought to do about the knowledge that I now have. It might not be a lot in the grand scheme of things, but hey, it's not nothing.