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[I love Bryan Caplan](https://flickr.com/photos/tripu/48054382953/), but I think he's is naïve if he thinks #morality can be solved by “divide and conquer”. The “simple cases” he provides as examples of “microethics” are anything but.
> _“Start with simple cases where right and wrong are obvious. Is it wrong to punish an escaped murderer by torturing his infant child? Is it wrong to welsh on a $20 bet? Is it wrong to steal an alcoholic’s liquor? To refuse to give all your surplus income away to needy strangers? Then build from there.”_
If only these were “obvious”!
Dilemmas in #ethics don't necessarily become easier when the cardinality of the set of individuals involved shrinks!
https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/04/introduction_to.html
