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Being selfish, or: doing something extra for yourself that explicitly harms others, is inherently immoral.

No need to add grey space here.




Who cares? Complain to the Pope about immorality, and he'll make sure they go to Hell. While you work on that, hopefully someone is working on making tax filing simpler, and preventing lobbyists from blocking that effort.


So every time you have decided to drive your car somewhere instead of take public transportation you are being immoral? The reason we need nuance here is without it we are all evil people contributing to the destruction of the planet.


False equivalency and you know it


Well, yes, that was the point. I was highlighting the ridiculous of the previous comment’s universal statement that anything selfish that harms others is immoral. There is nuance here that a statement like that ignores.




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