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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Who are you to decide what they're allowed to buy? You'd rather have someone go hungry on the off chance they might buy something you don't agree with?

[โ€“] lemming741 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Who am I to decide what my money is spent on?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Giving another person money usually implies the transfer of ownership of that money to that other person, unless otherwise specified.

[โ€“] lemming741 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think people have the right to do that conditionally

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Sure. And depending on the circumstances the conditions might not make you look like a very nice person. Which you are of course free to ignore.

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