Those
who travel through the parenting territories of the Blog-O-Sphere know
that there are a number of hot button topics, which when brought up
tend to lead to discussions bearing an uncanny, almost eerie
resemblance to the one depicted here.
Absolutism, in case you haven't noticed, is the bread-and-butter of
many a parenting blog, and Evil can be found everywhere, from parents
who (gasp!) give their babies formula to a certain cadre of
happy-go-lucky Australian entertainers who extoll the virtues of fruit
salad and New York firefighters.
One big (big, as in "makes more
money than most of the nations on Earth" big) target of derision is
Wal-Mart. Full disclosure: I rarely shop there, for a number of reasons
(chief among these - the greeters, with their empty smiles and lifeless
eyes...black eyes, like a doll's eyes...when they come at you, they
don't seem to be living...), and I don't really have an opinion of
Wal-Mart (other than "the greeters, they ain't right") either way. But
a lot of parents choose not to shop there, for reasons that are decent
ones: the company has a reputation as a low-paying, small
business-crushing behemoth that's made its fortune on the backs of
sweatshop slaves. Thus we have the argument over Wal-Mart - whether or
not it's morally right to shop there. So is Wal-Mart really evil?
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