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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if you don't do those things." Okay, but that only holds force if you're following a rule like "you can't cause harm (eg increase probability of kids in cages) unless you can in expectation prevent even greater harm by doing so."
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Basically this is act-utilitarianism, right? Or, like, "following a rigid rule regardless of immediate consequence is only justifiable if you can show that there actually are enough rule-followers to produce the better outcomes that would happen if everyone followed the rule"?
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