Main thrust of the thread aside, disassociating virtue from the cheapest thing bothers me. It is a virtue to prioritize having your own house in order. Too many buy free-range eggs and then claim they can't make ends meet. Kindness at the expense of others.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1327662938979647494 …
I think that is very situation dependent, and if help is indeed asked for later, that is a separate event whose virtue has to be judged separately. It's a very generic observation, not a critique. Any choice you make now might cause future choices with different virtue calculus.
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I could pay a premium for free range eggs and then later ask taxpayers to bail me out when I can't make rent. Equally, I might eat commercial eggs now and then later discover the conditions of factory farming and go ask a priest for help dealing with moral crisis.
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There's always consequences of all choices that may require going for people who made different choices. It's their choice then whether to give it, and under what conditions. Taxation aggregates and socializes this so that we all get some slack for our decisions.
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