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_vbdg on Aug 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thomas Sowell interview

> the law is very clear on this

"That's what the law says" is a lousy moral justification for something. There are plenty of unjust laws or just things that are not laws.

djrobstep on Aug 3, 2020 [–]

Indeed. You make a powerful critique of those who say that pre tax property law defines what somebody has morally earned.

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