Thoughts about coffee and justice

Somewhat strange title. I will explain.

To the right - my Coffee Center, an essential piece of equipment in my kitchen. It can do wonders with coffee. The problem begins in the shop: which coffee I should buy, and which is not so good to buy. And, mind you, it has nothing to do with the taste or price, but everything with justice.

For those of you who are now starting to label me crazy, a short explanation. Sweden is a fighter for human rights all over the world. The politicians from Sweden are present in almost every deciding body dealing with environment, civil rights, equal opportunities, peace projects, clean energy options, you name it. It is very noble, of course, and makes people aware of the dangers posed by big corporations and ruthless dictators.

So when we come to the coffee issue, we are reminded of those poor farmers somewhere who lose their income from their coffee plantations because some other farmers somewhere else are being used by the industry, and so on, and so forth. But, we are being told, if we buy the coffee produced by those poor farmers from the former group, we will do a good thing. The problem is, that this coffee is usually not so cheap and not so good, plus - it is not available in a supermarket. In order to buy it, you would have to go to some tiny store somewhere in the middle of nowhere, and they probably do not honor your credit card there. So what do you do? You buy the coffee which is available and end up with a guilty conscience - at least I do...

This coffee stuff got me thinking about other hot issues pursued by democracies. The rights of the homosexuals, for example. Or the rights of women to their own bodies. The rights of animals. The rights of fish in the sea (I am not kidding). Many demands for respect, all taken very seriously by their proponents.
There is one group whose rights are put aside, forgotten, ridiculed, called old-fashioned, belonging to another era - the rights of the unborn children. Contrasted with the rights of their irresponsible mothers, they lose big time, every time. Fish have more respect than unborn humans. Minks in the mink farms are more cherished than human fetuses. When a woman is spotted with a fur on, the animal activists might spray paint all over her and call her brutal. When the same woman claims her right to kill her unborn baby, she is called liberated and entitled to deciding over her own body.

Talking about justice? Anybody? Talking about justifying murder? Anybody? Silence...