[jacquesm]

The distinction is pedantic because you are making it so.

Whereas in fact it is anything but pedantic.

"The whole assumption that ethics have a price tag attached is faulty"

For everyone.

> But we’re past the point that readers are having a nice time reading this.

You seem to be in a habit of projecting your own feelings onto everybody else.

> If you’d like to continue, I’m happy to do so, but we need to restrict ourselves to a high caliber of debate, if only for HN’s sake.

Suit yourself.

[sillysaurusx]

I'm saddened that a repeat of our debate from seven years ago won't be forthcoming today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8901682 I was looking forward to it.

If you ever do want to probe deeper into the question of ethics vs cost, I think it would be interesting. But since you keep talking about me rather than the idea, the interest feels one-sided.

[jacquesm]

Three different people have now made the same point in three different ways and you simply ignore it, consider the possibility that you are simply wrong about something.

Ethics problems typically do not lend themselves to be translated into a caricature of the market economy. The habit of assigning price tags to stuff can help if the original problem is cost related, but it tends to be a crutch when things of a more principal nature are discussed, which would have a valid meaning absent such things as money or physical rewards. As long as you keep framing it like that you won't get further.