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17 Post author: Raemon 13 February 2011 10:52PM

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Comment author: gjm 04 February 2016 04:56:21PM 0 points [-]

You are using "social necessity" in a different way from Raemon. Maybe that's entirely deliberate, but it's worth making explicit. It's perfectly possible for something to be

  • a social necessity in the sense that anyone who doesn't do it will suffer serious adverse social consequences, but
  • not a social necessity in the sense that our society would be better off if people did it much less or not at all.
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