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> I gave several real, amoral, and tangible examples to explain why we should respect old debts in the current day, An idea for why something should be done ca
by dragonwriter 1y ago
> I gave several real, amoral, and tangible examples to explain why we should respect old debts in the current day,
An idea for why something should be done can be immoral (from the perspective of a particular moral framework), but it can't be amoral: should always presupposes an explicit or implicit value system.
> as it allows us to use the tool of currency to facilitate trade.
Why, without invoking any moral value, should be care about the ability to do that, much less weigh it more favorably than the effects of not being constrained by old debts?