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> I have never "hurt Africa", nor have I ever "made a mess" there, so I have no reparations to make.

Where did the gold in your phone / computer / etc come from? How about the tantalum?

See status as a conflict resource: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalum

And are you sure your waste electronics don't end up in Africa?

Dude, seriously. By that logic, it's unethical for you to buy anything, because something bad could have happened to someone along the production chain.

That's a completely nonsensical view to take, because you just can't know what happened and why, and none of it happened due to your actions.

We're not morally responsible for things that happen without any input from our personal choices and actions.

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