I really would like to go electric for my wife’s next car and the Model 3 seems perfect. Great lease deals, awesome charging network, decent service location…
However, I really don’t like Musk. I’m sure the other auto maker owners/ heads are deuche bags as well but at least they aren’t vocal about it.
I’ve struggled with this as well and I’ve seen plenty of people also comment, as some here already have, something to the effect of, “You’ve probably bought X from people that think or do horrible things and you just don’t know about it so what’s the big deal?” That’s very likely true but that’s not a logical justification for ignoring the bad actions you do know about just because you don’t know, or can’t possibly know, everything about everyone you buy from.
You make the changes you can knowing you have imperfect information.
The difference is knowing. Once you know someone is not ethical or doing good things, you shouldn’t support them. In many cases we are ignorant about the ethics of company leadership so there is some plausible deniability. In the case of musk, we know and we shouldn’t support him.