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There may be other reasons Airbnb is unethical, but minimizing one's taxes legally is not unethical.


Who lobbies for those loopholes?


I found a loophole that lets me sell kids organs.

The best part? I can use the new American ethics system to absolve myself of any guilt by saying "it's not illegal"!

What wouldn't you do if it became legal?


The organs belong to those kids. They are in their possession, and they made them. I’d have to take those organs from them by force or threat of force.

Kind of like my money that the government calls a tax and takes by threat of force or, if it decides, by force.

Your analogy is terrible and is completely oblivious on who the bad guys actually are.


And the land belongs to us all.


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Seems like you're missing the point. They're not comparing the morality of minimizing tax liabilities to harvesting human organs, they're using an extreme example of an obviously immoral act to demonstrate that morality isn't a function of legality.


“Obviously immoral” - the ChiComs disagree.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/organ-harvesting-china-survivo...


They don't disagree, otherwise they would openly embrace the practice instead of shrouding it in secrecy.


So the whims and popular beliefs of the masses decide what’s moral and immoral? If tomorrow society embraces organ harvesting from loving children, is it suddenly ok? Or is it always wrong irrespective of public opinion? If law doesn’t tell us what’s moral and immoral, what does?


What are you talking about? I did not imply in any way that popularity determines morality. I stated that organ harvesting is obviously immoral, you made the suggestion that committing an immoral act means that the perpetrator believes the act is moral, I am simply refuting that fallacious argument with the point that China concealing the act shows us that they are aware it is immoral.


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Analogies don’t work for supporting arguments.


That was a straw man and an association fallacy. It was not a useful or instructive analogy.




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