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xkvd

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    Comment #22713369

    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…

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    Comment #15180545

    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 …

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    Comment #15179629

    Yes, and it's still unclear to me how it'd be applied here.

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    Comment #15177047

    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 rul…

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    Comment #15176113

    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 -- yo…

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    Comment #15175042

    > [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…