Monday, January 14, 2008

Voting With Your Feet, by Paterson Burns

How many of you are familiar with the term "Vote With Your Feet"?

What does it mean to you? Do you vote with your feet?

Have you ever participated in a boycott? Have you ever boycotted a business or organization?

What would compel someone to participate in or support a boycott?

Would someone acting not like a Mason should act, be enough for you to boycott their business? Would you be content to window-shop their business, without stopping to buy anything?

If such a person or group of people generated conflict for the sake of drawing attention to, oh I don't know, let's say a website. A website is a business if it sells something online right? If their business profited from conflict or sought to generate and maintain conflict, at the expense of the Masonic fraternity, to boost advertising and sales, would you boycott it?

People boycotted "Conflict Diamonds", and Imperial Oil during Apartheid, what would compel you to participate in a boycott within the confines of the Masonic fraternity?

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