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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 209410, member: 4626&quot;]If I had to approve of every single thing a government did or is now doing before I bought a coin they produced, I wouldn&#039;t own a single coin.&nbsp; I think boycotting a given government&#039;s coins is a meaningless protest... it doesn&#039;t hurt them significantly anyway, they produce millions and someone else will buy them if you don&#039;t.&nbsp; If it bothers your consicence that much, go ahead and don&#039;t buy them, just don&#039;t fall under the delusion that your act of protest will have any kind of significant impact.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t even approve of 100% of what my own government does (never have, under either party) but I save all my protesting for the voting booth.&nbsp; The only thing I bother to protest with my coin collecting habit is the action of producing ugly and/or stupid coins... in that case I won&#039;t buy them!</p><p><br /></p><p>And I think I already made it clear that historic protesting (protesting governments or regimes that no longer exist or practices that are no longer ptacticed) is pretty silly, because it&#039;s not like your money will travel back in time to add support to them.&nbsp; I recall reading that some Native Amercians refuse to use $20 bills in protest to Andrew Jackson&#039;s treatment of American Indians... what do they honestly think that will accomplish?&nbsp; Do they want Andrew Jackson retroactively impeached?&nbsp; Do they think the Federal Reserve really cares if they use two tens instead of a twenty?&nbsp; They can never reduce the usage of the bill by enough for their statement to have any impact.&nbsp; Of course it seems to me most people who protest don&#039;t seem to care about the level of impact their protest has (or just don&#039;t realize how little it has), the point is to advertise their views and feel good about it.&nbsp; At least that&#039;s how most protesters always seem to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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