WILL WILKINSON ON Chick-Fil-A And Corporate Responsibility. “Matters of moral truth aside, what’s the difference between buying a little social justice with your coffee and buying a little Christian traditionalism with your chicken? There is no difference. Which speaks to my proposition that CSR, when married to norms of ethical consumption, will inevitably incite bouts of culture-war strife. CSR with honest moral content, as opposed to anodyne public-relations campaigns about “values”, is a recipe for the politicisation of production and sales. But if we also promote politicised consumption, we’re asking consumers to punish companies whose ideas about social responsibility clash with our own.”

Conclusion: “I’d suggest the best arena for moral disagreement is not the marketplace, but our intellectual and democratic institutions.” That would require intellectual and democratic engagement, instead of bullying.