I watched The Good Place from start to finish last year and thinking on it, it’s loaded with jokes that are very specific to American restaurants/people/products that I’ve never even heard of. I like Brooklyn 99 too and it’s the same.
The show also touches upon some excellent points... such as how messed up our current system is, lack of exposure to relevant general educaition in the general public leading to making decisions that people may THINK are correct, but aren't.
We can't be expected to know everything, and especially how the points system was originally set up was utterly ridiculous.
What's even worse, the show basically modified the system to work better, but the system on Earth remains unchanged (even though there are humans down there aware of it but are simply speaking powerless to affect meaningful changes with the resources they have at their disposal - most aren't in a position to do things like that... and those who try, their points weren't measured properly because any action they took inevitably meant they were participating in practices that are still intricate to the system that's in place).
I'm vegan for example, but I also don't live in an illusion that my actions result in 0 harm to animals. Why? Because the world I live in isn't vegan and most methods of production are outdated and based off animal exploitation.
Do I try to avoid processes and methods that do exploit animals? Of course... but its also a stark reality that everything I do is fundamentally limited by my purchasing power... so if I have to use a cheaper option which is affordable (but still vegan - just coming from the same company/process that does things in a damaging capacity) then I'd have to go with that, because I can't afford to go the more expensive route - and there is no guarantee the more expensive route is free of the same problems because the entire industry works in a manner where most companies put labels on thier products just to make consumers feel better about themselves.
Obviously, the vegan products ARE vegan, but when it comes to their overall practices, they just use buzzwords to assuage consumers and their definition of 'sustainability' is questionable at best.
On the whole, going vegan does lower ones footprint much more than anything else, but the point is I realize that even by going vegan in the current system is not 100% free of animal exploitation or sustainable because most methods of production are based off pre-existing and outdated practices that have mostly been updated incrementally.
The show is one of those rare ones that clevelry (and accurately) shows the pitfalls of the grossly outdated system we live in and the inefficiencies that accompany it.
So, even if you TRY and do the right thing... you WILL manage in being partly successful in acomplishing what you set out to do, but without changing the whole system, if the way of doing things doesn't change, then the damage the system does will remain.
