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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by natalyarostova on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:12PM (#17983134)
If you want to optimize systems, you should expect people to operate with self-interest with respect to the law. Attributing moral blame for self-interested parties not donating money to be within the spirit of the law is unreasonable.
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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by projektir on Thursday September 13, 2018 @10:47PM (#17984365)
Attributing moral blame to self-interested parties is exactly the point of moral blame. Moral blame is specifically about accusing people of going for their self-interest and little else...
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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by solveit on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:01PM (#17984407)
You're talking past each other. Moral blame isn't wrong, just not very useful.
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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by rsj_hn on Friday September 14, 2018 @12:41AM (#17984709)
Moral blame and $5 will get you a cup of coffee from Blue Bottle, which just sold out to Nestle.
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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by manigandham on Friday September 14, 2018 @09:56AM (#17987188)
Why must there be anything else? If you're going to make this argument then you must have a compelling answer, specifically in the context of a corporation.
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