We wrote L. L. Bean:
As a longtime L.L. Bean customer, I just received your winter catalog. I and my family are disgusted by the fur trimmed items. Until you go fur free, we will order nothing from you. You fail to understand that fur items rape our sensibilities. It hurts us and people like us.
L. L. Bean replied:
Dear Mr. Romesburg,
Thank you for sharing your comments with us. We appreciate hearing from you. We have been selling fur items for 94 years and our customers continue to request it. We do not have plans to discontinue and will continue to sell both faux and real fur.
Regards,
Laurie Brooks,
Public Affairs, L.L.Bean, Inc.
The non sequitur (logical fallacy) is of the form: “We have always done it. Therefore it is right.”
A logically correct and honest form of argument is available to L. L. Bean and its private owners. We suggest they adopt it: “Yes we’re mean. The fur we sell comes from rabbits and cats and dogs and other domesticated animals, put to horrible deaths. As long as there is profit in hurting animals and people sympathetic to them, we’ll go after it.”
For details on L. L. Bean’s credo of meanness, click here.
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