RE: Can it be unethical to go for the buffet?
I must admit that I'd been resisting the parallels drawn between menu types and socio-political systems. :cP More like it flew over my head the first time.
Its a novel comparison actually - and I see no merit in bashing such perspective.
The kinds of buffets that are kept warm tend to be the lower quality ones - particularly if its a slow day of business (less frequent replacements). Quite agreed that those including stationary cooks on the go tend to be better.
I am of two minds about menu variety necessarily being an indicator for poor quality - but I do agree that its easier to focus upon getting a narrower selection right and consistently so. :c)
You will find all sorts. Some insist on paying the tab while others prefer to 'go Dutch'. I'd agree that the personal economic considerations of the persons in question has a hand in determining such.
The only reason that I don't like linking communism with buffet is because communism itself has negative connotations. :c) Both communism and other terms need to undergo a period of detox so that they may exist independently of politically-expedient baggage that finds itself manifest in the most darnedest of ways.
Yeah, I mean it is a little funny how alot of the American liberty and anarcho movement is still buying everything of the cold war propaganda against socialism and communism. The USA abuses the terms freedom and liberty as much as socialism and communism were abused terms by the UDSSR and China.
To make one last statement as a food analogy: I will promote the way I cook and the way I want to eat, however that does not mean that I want to force people to like the things I cook or eat the way I think is best. You can have your stale buffet food or charge your friends for the food you give to them, maybe I don't want to be your friend then, but I don't want to imprison you or prevent your table culture from existing (by force).
'Grins'
You clearly haven't tried Okurama's buffet. ;c)
But yes I do understand that this is a matter of "To each his/her own".
And I'm not even going to get started on the ethical inconsistencies that we've seen this past couple of decades. :c/
Thank you again @thatgermandude. :c)