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> That's not a moral judgment. That was still a moral judgement. Welfare and UBI always have this issue in that everyone has a moral opinion on what recipient
by admax88q 6y ago
> That's not a moral judgment.
That was still a moral judgement. Welfare and UBI always have this issue in that everyone has a moral opinion on what recipients of money should spend it on.
If you have money, nobody cares what you spend it on, but if you don't have money, suddenly everyone has an opinion on what you should and shouldn't be allowed to use it for.
- prewett 6y agoA moral judgment is "it is wrong to do X". It isn't a moral judgement to say "We don't want to spend our society's money subsidizing drug and alcohol addiction, we want to spend it on getting homeless people jobs, houses, etc." It isn't a moral judgment to say "we have observed that drug and alcohol addiction are harmful to the addicts and to the society we want to create, so we don't want to spend our money on that." Usually people aren't quite so precise and assume that the "we have observed ... to be harmful" is understood.
- ncallaway 6y ago"We don't want to spend our society's money subsidizing drug and alcohol addiction, we want to spend it on getting homeless people jobs, houses, etc." That is a moral judgement. It may be one you agree with, but it's wrong to say that's not a moral judgement.
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