xkvd

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   by xkvd 7y ago

   What do you mean by "privatize the profits" here? Are you ignoring taxation? One way to view the government's role here is that it shifts around externalities to achieve efficiency. You can put cap-and-trade restrictions to a
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   by xkvd 9y ago

   Appealing to the veil is a good but insufficient step. For instance, we might disagree what people would agree on behind the veil (imo because we encode moral assumptions into our conclusions from it). Nonetheless, if we were to get that fa
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   by xkvd 9y ago

   Yes, and it's still unclear to me how it'd be applied here.
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   by xkvd 9y ago

   Yeah, but I have a feeling that we're both outside of the set of people who would make the statement I was quoting in my OC, which might explain why you and I can't find such a rule.
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   by xkvd 9y ago

   My examples are just 4 quick things off the top of my head, there are probably many more. I also don't see your point about the deaf person (they're still treated differently -- you wouldn't talk vocally to them). I agree wit
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   by xkvd 9y ago

   > [if someone thinks people should] be treated differently because of how they were born [then outrage they face is justified] This has always piqued my curiosity -- would you mind explaining? Why is this such a deep tenet that I hear it