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Re:San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings by Karunamon on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:55PM (#11552147)
Pragmatism over morals leads directly to "end justifies the means" thinking. It's basically doing the wrong thing for the right reason, and what's worse, without that moral anchor, it's very easy to use the same excuse to do something just a little more annoying next time.

The slippery slope might be a logical fallacy, but history points to it as the normal mode of operation for a government.

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Re:San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings by thinkcontext on Friday April 22, 2016 @04:19PM (#11552295)
In my example, there are two competing moral claims, those that bear the externality (and pay higher taxes and other costs) and those that pay the bag tax.
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