At what point, if any, is it immoral to buy the last of a product at the store?

[myhairisonfire]

Sometimes, it's a dog-eat-dog world. Some people are selfish. Some people may "want" it more than you do.

This is how it is in China, and I do not want it to be that way in America.

 

[PP Police]

I think morality only comes to play if you are buying something to price gouge like others have mentioned, or if you purposefully buy more than you need of something (and take the last one) to spite others.

 

[Itchy Hemorrhoids]

If no one ever buys the last item, less will come despite the demand when it's restocked. I guess the government should intervene and decide who gets it. They'll pick the right people, right?

 

[The Last Stand]

Then again, environment also matters and I'm picturing a small, friendly community where everyone cares about their neighbour as I say this. If you're in a city, go nuts I guess, it's all gonna be looted when things get bad enough anwyay.

What's the percentage of "diversity" living there? If it's high, all morals go out the window because I've seen those people viciously attack others for petty things.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

What's the percentage of "diversity" living there? If it's high, all morals go out the window because I've seen those people viciously attack others for petty things.

Community is the key factor I think, but it is naturally counter proportional to diversity, at least in how leftist progressive types define diversity. They typically just mean diversity of background and appearence, and of nationality (despite how much they try to deny it on the grounds of hating their own 1st world nationality, nationality and culture are intertwined), but ironically want everyone to ascribe to the same opinions and philosophies. Diversity of opinion is not tolerated. This philosophy in action naturally sews chaos.

I've gone off track, the point remains that environment and community are also a huge factor to OP's question, specifically with regards to how much of a fuck you give about the other people who might need that product you're buying out.

 

[Leylon Sneed]

It could be any produc

I bought the last branded hat from a small hardware store I shop at not long ago. No regrets.. but with how often I shop there they should have thrown in a hoodie.

 

[booklover]

I remember when people bought ALL the toilet paper at COVID, then tried to resell them at high prices.

There was this story, too. Okay, the Dollar Generals in the remote locations may have initially liked the extra business, until they didn't.

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/tennessee-ag-orders-brothers-to-stop-buying-and-selling-medical-goods/51-6dd8da9e-7c4a-4625-8f47-06338794df4c

 

[NeonFlux]

If you're grocery shopping and you see a tranny and an actual woman fighting over the last box of tampons, what do you do?

 

[umseriously]

When you start thinking about it.

 

[Suburban Bastard]

Never

I bought the last few jars of pitiless olives once at my local store. Sink or swim bitch.

 

[Cun75p4rkl35]

The only way this can even conceivably get close to immoral is buying during panics for the purposes of gouging.

It was very satisfying to watch those scumfucks whine about their stockpile of hand sanitizer and toilet paper after COVID

 

[SofondaCox]

Would it be okay to take the last of the OREO cookies if you leave plenty of the off brand OREOs?

 

[The Last Stand]

There was this story, too. Okay, the Dollar Generals in the remote locations may have initially liked the extra business, until they didn't.

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/tennessee-ag-orders-brothers-to-stop-buying-and-selling-medical-goods/51-6dd8da9e-7c4a-4625-8f47-06338794df4c

I remember that story. I'm thinking: "so these motherfuckers are the reason hand sanitizer are in short supply?" Let's go to a small town that barely has enough as is, buy all their necessities, deprive people of basic needs and sell it for profit! Wow. It's not like the store could decline the transaction as they need the money for upkeep.

Would it be okay to take the last of the OREO cookies if you leave plenty of the off brand OREOs?

I don't care what you do.

 

[souschef]

If you're grocery shopping and you see a tranny and an actual woman fighting over the last box of tampons, what do you do?

Film it and post on the farms for your entertainment!

 

[AirMail]

If there are any sort of price restrictions, anti-gouging laws or similar that try to restrict freedom of trade, then it is immoral to follow those. Buy as much as possible. Try to cause a shortage if you can. Resistance to immoral laws is moral.

That being said, when trade is free, it is stupid to not take other people's needs into account. You should care about your friends, your family, your neighbors, your local community, your country, your race - you should care and not cause problems for them unnecessarily. However, this is not a matter of morality - it is a purely practical fact. It is not immoral to put yourself first. It is not immoral to only care about yourself. However it is stupid to not realize that the well-being of those around you is part of your own well-being. Stupid. Not immoral.

 

[Professor Booster]

Like I insinuated, anyone who is foolhardy or overconfident enough to try to rigorously justify or defend the notion of "there is a line" in my vicinity is just looking to be torn into shreds
Especially since "I find this amoral action immoral" overlaps nearly perfectly with "this immoral must be prohibited" which overlaps perfectly with structural conditions that are anti-abundance

You have a talent in expressing agreeable ideas like a giant fag.

 

[booklover]

Would it be okay to take the last of the OREO cookies if you leave plenty of the off brand OREOs?

Yes, unless that "off brand" was Hydrox. Those are great.

 

[Trombonista]

You know shelves can be refilled, right?

 

[The Last Stand]

You know shelves can be refilled, right?

Yes, but what if there's a shortage like from COVID?

 

[We Are The Witches]

Was toilet paper or Pokémon cards what made you think of this thread?