Re: The Ingredients of A Shirt

Sims brilliantly uses something as simple as a shirt to show how heavily interconnected the world is. Decisions we make that we may feel only affect us rarely are as they appear. I agree that the government should strive to hold themselves to some sort of standard. Similar to corporate responsibility, there should be a self-imposed code of ethics regulating the actions of governmental bodies. However, in order for this to be effective, there needs to be a degree of shame involved in patronizing purveyors of tarnished goods. I wouldn't go as far as saying these standards should be law, but I do believe that the United States should act as the proverbial bigger person and be the first to adopt such a code of ethics. I believe that if we make the first move the rest of the world would follow; therefore, conditions in plants and factories worldwide would have to improve in order for them to remain viable.