I love Professor Molten. She is warm and kind, which sets her apart from most of my academic role models. Like Whitecastle however, she is a staunch Mac supporter. When I mentioned to her my own nerdy reason for wanting one ("they have this really need program that manages your PDF articles called papers... and uh... the design?"), she excitedly told me hers: conflict minerals. In other words: one more thing to feel guilty about. Conflict minerals are like blood diamonds. But much more prevalent. According to the Enough Project (Molten: That's E-N-O-U-G-H, for whatever reason, whenever I tell people about the organization, they think it's spelled with an F), Apple is one of the few companies that has agreed to stop using conflict minerals in their source supply chain.
We could have stopped there, but I couldn't resist letting her walk off with the Conscience Prize. Plus, talking about issues gets so exciting. So I pointed out the Times' extensive series on Apple's unsafe manufacturing conditions, and how they were much worse than other PC producers. Because really, that's what it comes down to, not living conditions or user preferences, but who can cite more liberal media content.
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