Suppose I go to a friend’s house. They’re thinking of having chicken or eggs for dinner. They ask if I would eat some if I stayed over. I don’t loom forward to eating meat, but in my mind, it’s not like the circumstance of having it for dinner didn’t fall in place in front of me, so I say sure.
Later, I talk about it in hindsight. A vegan would come and ask me why I did that. The ones I’ve spoken to have often said that eating eggs, despite them not harming the chicken, can be traced back to the store which can be traced back to the meat industry which they say kills animals absolutely and out of necessity, and that this is all direct and absolute enough that I’m a financer of the animal’s suffering. All because here I am eating eggs.
BUT… then there is the other issue. There are those on the “con” side of the piracy debate, who say “piracy can be traced back to X which can be traced back to Y which means you’re ruining someone’s livelihood”. But these people, using the above “logic”, are few and far between. And the same people who supported that then say here “I don’t see how it’s that directly traceable.”