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- Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits.…
- In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to…
- The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
- Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.
- Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.
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