Why bother with reality?

Last week I blipped a photograph of a Phaleonopsis. A real one. I also offered a little advice on how to grow them inside the house.

Now I wonder why I bothered. When we went back to the garden centre we found that ones like that pictured above were on sale. The only way we could tell that they were artificial was that the "soil" in the pot was hard and dry. For the rest the flower petals, the leaves and the aerial roots were indistinguishable to both eye and touch from the real thing. I have never seen such man made perfection before.

A friend pointed out that they may have been made by people paid a pittance for working twelve hours a day. Is the argument that if we did not buy one they would receive even less a valid one. Any experts on ethics out there?