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Mar. 31st, 2010 08:21 pmCleaning up my sewing and fabric department I found a couple of perfectly good T-shirts which I was saving to cut up into new things. They've been sitting there for over a year because it seems unethical to chop them up somehow. I got given them and wore them once or twice before deciding they were far too short and wide to be wearable, and almost certainly too oddly proportioned to be any use to anyone else. Now I wonder: are there people so much shorter in the body than me that these shirts would fit? Are there people who LIKE their T-shirts to barely meet their waistbands? Should I chuck them in the charity bin and find another source of fabric?
I would be causing more entropy by cutting up a T-shirt, with inevitable fabric wastage, to make something new out of it. I'm sure people would say the T-shirts belong to me and I can do whatever the hell I like with them -- people who live in a world of billboards asserting that one "deserves" chocolate simply by existing, who have never entertained a thought about the greater scheme of things. These T-shirts have become a huge moral conundrum to me.
On third thoughts, perhaps my inability to believe in people who would fit the shirts is rooted in reality rather than unimaginativeness and I would actually be doing the world a service by removing them from circulation. Imagine the frustration I could be saving an op-shopper who bought what seemed like a perfectly serviceable T-shirt and then found uncomfortable cold draughts around her middle. She might end up with the same dilemma I'm having -- or she might send the T-shirt straight to landfill.
I would be causing more entropy by cutting up a T-shirt, with inevitable fabric wastage, to make something new out of it. I'm sure people would say the T-shirts belong to me and I can do whatever the hell I like with them -- people who live in a world of billboards asserting that one "deserves" chocolate simply by existing, who have never entertained a thought about the greater scheme of things. These T-shirts have become a huge moral conundrum to me.
On third thoughts, perhaps my inability to believe in people who would fit the shirts is rooted in reality rather than unimaginativeness and I would actually be doing the world a service by removing them from circulation. Imagine the frustration I could be saving an op-shopper who bought what seemed like a perfectly serviceable T-shirt and then found uncomfortable cold draughts around her middle. She might end up with the same dilemma I'm having -- or she might send the T-shirt straight to landfill.
