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They might also want to buy, I don't know, bread.

Should the bread company have to build their own roads, too? That's a better world, how exactly?

And what about the people who don't want to buy Coca Cola? Should they get to buy nothing?




But those roads were already nonexistent, and their nonexistence is not affected by the existence of Coca Cola roads. In this hypothetical, we are comparing a world with no roads to a world with roads to deliver Coca Cola. Since some people like Coca Cola, I find the latter world preferable.




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