>everything is political!!!!
>Looks inside
>Actually is a highly individualized moral dilemma
Look buddy just because your moral problems have a political dimension doesnt make it political. Ask yourself whether the cause you think is political has the potential to mobilize the masses; if the only impact it has is soothing your conscience then its moral, not political, and you should by no means confuse it with actual political organizing.
Rather than thinking of these things as individual moral problems, I prefer to think of the collective-action effects of social signalling.
e.g. it does not matter whether or not I buy meat, however, if I am a vocally annoying vegan and I convince at least one other person to stop eating meat and to become a vocally annoying vegan, and they convince at least one other person… and so on, and so on, then this aggregates to a structural effect which can meaningfully shift (a) demand for meat and (b) the social position of meat eating (hopefully in a less cool, lower-status direction, or at least into the "controversial" category, further amplifying this structural effect.) leading to (c) greater production of meat alternatives and investment in lab-grown meat as a consequence even in the less optimistic scenarios, and reduced meat consumption and profits on-the-margin in more optimistic scenarios.
This holds for BDS, or to a lesser extent for "ethically sourced" products (The problem with the latter is that there's always the incentive for enshitification.) and most other things slighted as "virtue signalling" - signalling matters! people will kill themselves to send social signals! "I, a cool person, refuse to associate with Israel because they are evil" - they hate that! they're always trying to coolwash themselves as a normal country!
It is true that having an individual moral framework distinct from this is also much more healthy, but it is a larger mental leap when you're used to thinking structurally and denying yourself. Sometimes you have to double down on your existing methodology.
>>2881035>Ask yourself whether the cause you think is political has the potential to mobilize the massesWell by that standard almost nothing is political. Whatever the scribes of the duopoly say, I guess. Back in the 19th century the abolitionists tried to buy products not made by slaves and it failed miserably, guess slavery wasn't political.
>>2881177>it does not matter whether or not I buy meatIt does matter though. Every bit matters.