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Comment author: buybuydandavis 28 June 2013 01:55:57AM 0 points [-]

I nominate "justice" as the more basic bad concept. It's a good concept for sloppy thinkers who are incapable of keeping in mind all the harm done later by injustices now,

Actually, I think that's some of what they are keeping in mind and find motivating.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 29 June 2013 03:46:13PM -1 points [-]

If they were able to keep it in mind separately, they could include that in their calculations, instead of using justice as a kind of sufficient statistic to summarize it.

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