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by faboo 5324 days ago
You miss my point I think. You can't eat a bank note, and you haven't killed a person you've parted it from. Indeed, requesting more bank notes than necessary for something is many levels of abstraction removed from doing a person direct harm, and that makes it harder for people to have a gut feeling about the morality of it.

That doesn't mean overcharging necessarily doesn't do real harm; it just means it requires mental effort to understand it as moral or immoral. Maybe not much, but more than deciding whether outright killing someone is immoral or not. Ergo, it is not necessarily true that no moral dilemma might benefit from discussion.