Yeah, I agree that we live in a time where a lot of folks try to turn not liking something into a moral stance.
IMHO there’s something about the medium of social networks that tends to lead folks down that road, even if this kind of hyperbolic posturing has always been a thing.
But I don’t think that’s happening in this thread. The discussion is about whether or not people find Behringer’s business practices bad, not whether their synths are any good.
And if you find someone’s business practices bad, it’s not surprising that you’d be disappointed by people who do business with them.
That said… I think there’s an important distinction that gets lost in many of these online arguments—the difference between being complicit in something and not even knowing about it.
I think a lot of my fellow Lefties are way, way too fast to criticize people for stuff they barely even know is happening in the first place. It’s annoying and holier-than-thou, and it offends people instead of engaging with them. And people will always dig in, so it creates stasis rather than progress.
Worst of all, it makes people feel like they’re being attacked just for, like, trying to live in the world. That sucks.
But it also goes the other way—it’s very easy these days to reduce “I find this company’s actions unethical” down to “I merely do not like this thing.” That sounds like a dodge to me.
(Btw, for any 'nauts suffering deja vu, yes, this conversation has happened before.)