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> 1) Avoiding tax is in legal bounds is completely moral and is practised by everyone who is able to do that. I know a _lot_ of programmers in US who establish
by Eridrus 11y ago
> 1) Avoiding tax is in legal bounds is completely moral and is practised by everyone who is able to do that. I know a _lot_ of programmers in US who establish private consulting companies to write off all their private expenses and get 15% effective tax rate. If you think avoiding tax is immoral, you should hate them just as much as you hate billionaires.
Morality is not binary, and it is quite reasonable to think that while programmers evading taxes is bad, billionaires doing so is worse.
- golergka 11y agoWhy worse if it's the same %?
- rlucas 11y agoWhen does a difference in degree become a difference in kind? (Not arguing the specific point -- but differences of degree do matter in the messy empirical real world.)
- jtuente 11y agoWhether morality is or isn't binary isn't quite the point you should be making. It's that not everyone shares the same views of morality. Some people find private property immoral, for instance. The reason that we have moral "gray" areas isn't so much because morality isn't binary, but more because what different people view of as moral varies. In a purely utilitarian sense, non-binary morality is more concerned with how closely an action comes to the "greatest good" in that an action can be morally good but not morally greatest good. But what defines the greatest good depends on how person defines morality.