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Re:San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings by zardo on Friday April 22, 2016 @04:59PM (#11552524)
I didn't mean to imply that it has infinitely negative monetary value. I mean that it is a sort of wrong that cannot be undone by money.
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Re:San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings by SilasX on Friday April 22, 2016 @05:18PM (#11552619)
It's the same principle -- however bad some harm X is in the abstract (be it death or environmental catastrophe), it doesn't justify arbitrary measures to fight it, be it more cameras tracking your movement or $20/kg taxes on plastic bags, because in every practical sense the actual harm is bounded.
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