Well, YES. Paying taxes to the organization that runs ICE, or voting for whichever politician runs against Trump, or trading with a doctor benefiting from an occupational licensing regime; these acts would all be great evils if you weren't trapped.https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1206718983115698176 …
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Demanding "personal" consequences is moving the goalposts; the question is whether a defiant action is *best*, not whether it has personal consequences. People who refused to vote for Hillary didn't pay the price, kids in cages did, but that still makes the action nonbest.
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Your original point was "it would be immoral to vote for Hillary/pay taxes/trade with doctors/etc. if you weren't trapped by a bad Nash equilibrium." The counterargument I made is "you're not trapped, you totally can do those things." You said "but there are worse consequences...
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This is of course all about the threshold you set for "dire". They don't kill many folks in the modern world for heresy.
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