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by truxus 3163 days ago
What if you decide to fund a self-destructive addiction? Or send the money to a foreign country? Is that in the public interest?
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Letting people make mistakes is important. Letting people be altruistic is important.

More specifically: I'm 0% worried about sending money overseas, since I expect that the few people who do so that will be making the world a better place on net.

In both cases real wealth is lost from the economy.

State sponsored destruction of property.

The first case is handled by socialized healthcare and the second by the nsa.
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