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This is the "someone's gonna do bad in this world, better if the most righteous person around does--hey that's me" defense.

Sigh, there is no iteration of that logic that doesn't devolve to vacuous self-justification for engaging in immoral acts.




I don't agree with your reasoning. Most bad things aren't driven by supply and demand. If you jail a rapist, you aren't creating incentive for someone else to commit more rapes.

Also, performing a dirty industrial process in a country with strong environmental and workplace safety regulations is better than moving that process to a country with no protections.




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