Do you think it's logical to boycott someone's product because of his personal choices/situations?

Let he without sin be the first non-hypocrite.

Sure. Life is short. You have to make choices, if you feel strongly about something it will influence your choice.

Personally, I don’t think it’s fair for people to shun Chris Brown because of what he did. Yeah, he did terrible things to his girlfriend, but if we got ethical on all celebrity asses, we wouldn’t be listening to any music or watching any movies at all. “Oh, I don’t listen to her music because she’s a drunk and a coke-head”—-say goodbye to 90% of your entertainment.

Watching a Tom Cruise movie or buying a Chris Brown CD gives those people money, even if it’s just a few cents, and furthers their fame. It’s logical to want to not give your money or support to people you have serious issues with.

I tend to separate product from person. I don’t really give a hoot what happens in people’s private lives.. if they make good movies/products, that’s what I’m paying for.. I’m not paying for them to be good people.

@NaturalMineralWater . . .lurve for having a hoot to give.

Depends on the thing. I was very annoyed with Tom Cruise for a while and did not see his movie War of the Worlds at the time in the theatre, and it is the type of movie I would enjoy. I also think there is an argument for separating a person’s personal life from his work…so I think I just pick and choose at whim and there is not a consistent pattern to what I might boycott and what I don’t. I guess I just consider it my perogative, well I extend the perogative to everyone really.

It’s logical to make decisions and engage in habits and activities that suit your lifestyle in a way that fits you best. Hopefully that doesn’t include unreasonable biases or making inappropriate or questionable judgements about certain persons or things.

Speaking for myself, I’m not going to boycott a product that I like even though I might dislike a particular person and whatever strange idiosyncrasies they might have. They live their life the way they want to and I live my life the way I want to.

I cannot compartamentalize these things very well. I will not give my money to causes I don’t support, and I do not give my money to people I do not support, be it for personal or professional reasons. As an example I will not support the Lakers till they boot Kobe.

I have avoided the last few Tom Cruise movies, but because I find him a nausiating little prick, not because of his Scientologist beliefs.
I have no problem with Glen Beck losing advertisers because he called Obama a racist. He wants to throw mud, I understand corporations not wanting to associate themselves with his hate-speak.
I would refuse to watch the Eagles now, since they aquired the Worlds Most Famous Dog Killer.

lol @le_inferno reminds me of a Bill Hicks quote
And if you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. ‘Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that’s enhanced your lives throughout the years were rrreal fucking high on drugs.

All the Beatles have said that they tried recording while on drugs, but when they listened to the cuts later, realized they were terrible, and re-did them straight.

I immediately thought of the Whole Foods debacle, where the founder or CEO (I’m unclear on this point) wrote in an editorial that health care was not a right. Whole Foods has a very liberal customer base, so of course they were up in arms over this ‘betrayal’.

I think it depends on the product and personal choice. If someone voted yes on Prop. 8 and I was a gay-rights advocate, I might not buy the clothes this person designs because I want to send a message about what I support. But I think it’s unfair to force public figures to have no opinions just because they could offend their customer or fanbase.

If I believe I am supporting a cause I find hateful (not just distasteful, which I can live with) significantly through my purchases, I will boycott it. Sometimes because I hate the thought of my money being used for something against my principles, and sometimes just to make a statement.

But I think I’d let a lot of small issues slide, or ones that I think are irrelevant. I won’t stop listening to music because I disapprove of what the singers or band members are doing in their personal lives. I just like the music. I listen to it on Youtube mostly, so it’s not like I’m paying them. If they’re using their fame (from that product) to do something I’m against, that might be different.

I agree with naturalmineralwater
Who cares as long as the product is good
Like Tom Araya (of Slayer ) is a catholic. But I don’t care because Slayer fucking rips my eardrums off whenever I put on Show No mercy
I have always never liked Chris Brown….

I wouldn’t buy Chris Brown’s music because it’s terrible, and I wouldn’t watch Tom Cruise’s films because he’s terrible

I think the music and drugs comment is a bit messed up. Whether or not you support drug use, you can easily realize it’s a “victimless crime”. Unlike, say, beating your girlfriend.

Anyway, I do support the idea of boycotting some person/company’s products for things they do behind the scenes. There are plenty of fish in the sea. There is no company that makes an absolutely unique product you cannot possibly find somewhere else.

If I find out the people behind Sara Lee use child slave labor, I’ll buy products from another company. That’s supporting their bad actions just as buying a band’s album supports their good actions.

No, you shut up Wesley

J. Spaceman once said of his musical methodology:“It’s taking drugs to make music to take drugs to.”

i’m in line with the above Bill Hicks quote. Pretty much anyone who’s done anything is guilty of doing something that some other group doesn’t like, doesn’t agree with or openly opposes. You’re not going to escape it.

I think people should be more worried about what the music they listen to, movies or tv they watch and books or magazines they read promote. Does a musician promote violence against women or a certain group, but, perhaps, not actively involve himself in it? To me, avoiding something like that is more powerful.

I think it’s entirely reasonable.
If you don’t like what the person is likely to do with the money you give them, it’s entirely up to you not to give them your money.

@The_Compassionate_Heretic said it perfectly.

I certainly will never go to a Mel Gibson (ha! I wrote “Mel Brooks” by mistake) after the anti-semitic and just plain hateful remarks he has made. How else can you express disagreement with a public figure or company’s position?

i think it’s certainly logical.
sure, you may be doing yourself a disservice by denying your urge to get that product or listen to that music, but in the end, your money is what’s keeping them rich and famous. if you know they’re people you wouldn’t want to help, i don’t think it’s stupid to decide to take your money elsewhere.

that being said, i know a lot of companies i purchase things from are probably horribly unethical. when i know for sure that something i’m against is being paid for with my money though, i usually try to stop supporting that company/person.
in the case of chris brown, if i bought his music to begin with, i wouldn’t buy it now. that motherfucker should be in jail, not livin’ it up with my money
in the case of tom cruise, so what if he’s batshit insane? he’s not hurting anyone. he’s living his life and until he affects someone negatively with his religion, i don’t have a problem with him.

I find the worship of celebrities to be a big fat waste of time. So I avoid movies and TV like the plague. Time I used to spend watching TV is now spent reading books or using the Internet.

And when it comes to movies, I either watch animated stuff like Open Season, Madagascar or Finding Elmo, or historical documentaries. Yeah, I know, I’m fucking boring.

I personally can’t separate people from their actions. For example, a player for the New England Patriots who used to play for the Vikings ran over a police officer with his car because she found marijuana in his trunk while he was double-parked. He was not punished, and the team for which he was playing took care of the fine. This infuriates me, because I know that if I hit someone with my car, particularly a member of the law enforcement, I would be severely punished; yet he gets off scott-free just because he can catch a football and run fast.

It may not be logical, but it’s how I feel.

@zephyr826 that is part of the reason I find celebrity worship to be a waste of time. Those losers would be NOTHING if everyone ignored them, yet they get paid millions to either play a kids game, or pretend to be something in a movie or tv show, and they are no different than their fans, yet they get special treatment. That’s why I answered in a different thread that I hope Michael Vick gets his genitals chewed off by a rabid dog and he bleeds to death before the paramedics arrive.

It’s a matter of principle. It’s not just logical but moral as well.

I was looking forward to switch from TWC to DirecTV so I could subscribe to the NFL Network. My team is going through a complete reorganization and I really wanted to follow all their games, including the pre-season. Until the NFL reinstated Mike Vick. I have this mental image of Vick grabbing a dog by his collar, raising him in the air and slamming his body onto the ground repeatedly, until his head explodes… I’ll gladly donate the NFL network’s subscription fee to a defense fund for anyone who will do to Vick what he did to these dogs but the NFL won’t get anything from me as long as the guy plays.

Also, I won’t watch any movie or tv show that has people like Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Jessica Alba, Roseanne Barr and other America-hating Hollywood lowlifes of that kind.

@Jack_Haas you’re learning, friend, you’re learning. :^)