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But what if it's the least evil of all the available options? That doesn't itself make it "good" but that does make it the best option available.



Contrary to popular belief, economy is not a binary system. There is a huge range of decisions that can be pursued and each decision has a particular interest. Modern societies have decided to take the "market-friendly" decisions each step of the way instead of the human- and environment-friendly decisions with the excuse that this is the least of "two" evils.


Of course. PeachPlum was asserting that it does make it good, though.


What I was trying to get at is that if something is literally the best option available then there's not much point complaining about it.




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