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 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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If you, for eg. have a bias towards self-reliance, your choices may be robust to some consequences, but you may create harder choices for others (including chickens if you grant them personhood). That's the definition of a negative externality.
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