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I think the relationship is the other way. Markets are based on law, which are usually heavily influenced by morals (e.g. alcohol sales in wet vs. dry counties

by chime 13y ago

I think the relationship is the other way. Markets are based on law, which are usually heavily influenced by morals (e.g. alcohol sales in wet vs. dry counties in the US). Unless legality comes into play, my rules of morality should not affect your economic purchases and vice versa.

nbouscal 13y ago
> Unless legality comes into play, my rules of morality should not affect your economic purchases and vice versa. Completely agree. Of course in this particular case there's a lot more than just morals involved, since choosing to become obese has economic and other impacts on everyone in the society. I had understood your original point to be that this was all (morally) okay because it's how the market decided, which was what I was responding to. I may well have misunderstood your point.