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Enough Already with "Good Intentions"

Enough Already with "Good Intentions"

Moral crime is moral crime.

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Christopher Cook
Feb 03, 2023
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Just a short post today…

When we hear people propose "free tuition" or "free health care," we need to stop responding as if they are simply misguided. We need to stop responding in consequentialist terms (“Oh, but that will produce inferior economic results”) and start responding in moral terms: “What you propose is, on the most fundamental level, a seri…

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