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Decius comments on How should negative externalities be handled? (Warning: politics) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Decius 09 May 2013 05:55:02AM 8 points [-]

The Talmud discusses the legality of farming flowers that make for bad tasting honey when bees use them to make honey, and when one can plant such flowers near the property of someone who owns beehives.

I know it's a little off topic, but it's interesting to point out when you can almost reconstruct the situation that was patched by a specific rule by looking at the rule.