(10-01-2014, 12:39 PM)Monica Wrote:(10-01-2014, 02:39 AM)isis Wrote: Where I live, if you were tell someone that eating the meat from the farms that do the cruel standard practice means supporting the cruelty you'd get your booty kicked or worse
Everyone who drives a car supports the oil industry (unless it's a 100% electric car).
When someone says 'I support such-and-such...' they're typically saying they are for such-and-such. Do you see where I'm going with this?
Telling someone they're for something that they're not for might rub them the wrong way - especially where I live. (Polk County - which I've heard is meth capital of the world.) Here you can't (safely) say, "everyone who drives a car supports the oil industry (unless it's a 100% electric car)." because of the way the word 'support' is typically defined.
In most (if not all) dictionaries, this is NOT the first definition of the word 'support': "to give assistance to, especially financially" this is: "to agree with or approve of"