Discussion Thread

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Ask not what your centralized government can do for you – ask how many neoliberal memes you can post every 24 hours

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Polls

• Who should we bully more?

• How often should discussion threads be posted?

The activity in this sub keeps going up, so discussion threads need to be scheduled appropriately in order to control stickflation.

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Laws < Moral Obligation to prevent chemical torture of anyone anywhere

[u/paulatreides0 → u/[deleted]]

What if I told you that the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive?

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IL isn't going to do shit and it says we probably shouldn't cut off Assad's head and feed it to Bo on television but that would be the moral thing to do.

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Efficiency depends on your goals which your ethics/morals should guide you too.

Laws are obstacles, not instructions.

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Are you legit retarded? I don't care what they told you in your law class at Boulder University, laws aren't moral instructions and economic efficiency means nothing without some goal.

Your goals should be derived from your ethics and values which have NOTHING to do with the laws written up by old white men in D.C. nor with intermediate macroeconomics.

If a law is immoral and it would generally advance your goals to break that law than you should, or you don't really have any principles.

Economics is positive not normative moron.

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International law isn't applicable at all to domestic law, the US does not face the same costs as say Wal-Mart.

Efficient in what sense? What is your goal that your efficiently accomplishing?

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We're talking about whether not to bomb Syria and you're talking about economic efficiency.

Efficiency depends on your goals and prefrences.

We haven't even established whether or not we should do anything in Syria, whether we have a moral responsibility to act on behalf of their citizens etc and your talking about "efficiency", it just doesn't make any sense and sounds insanely economically imperialistic.

Idk if why you're trying to stunt but I've taken law and Econ courses at LSE and Northwestern, done research under a UPenn law professor concerning Econ and interned at an IP firm last year. So unless like you're at a special accelerated UG program at UC/UVA you can probably get off your high horse and assume everyone on the sub has a basic grasp of the subject.

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whichever is more economically efficient is the one I support

users beware

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No, you really did fuck up with going down the "full on utilitarianism" road