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Then surely universal health care, strict anti-pollution measures, and worker safety efforts are next on the list, alongside access to healthy food and efforts to reduce the number of miles the average person needs to drive daily.

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Surely? It's far from clear that the benefits of these initiatives would be net positive.

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The poster above asserted maximizing ROI wasn't a goal - that, and I quote:

> protecting its citizens is of extreme moral importance

Given the number of our citizens that die from, eg, preventable diseases, that seems like a far, far higher moral call than a war against Iran.