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>I'm not trying to argue anything, I'd like like try and tease out arguments worth considering.

Hacker News comments aren't this place for this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Moreover, you've complained about no one providing explanations (they have) while providing none of your own.

There's no point in responding further to your questions, since you're providing no substance of your own, but have a very short list of what you should google for context, in the event you're not trolling, and are just somehow trying the socratic method while ignorant of philosophy:

>who's made these assertions, and where? Not anywhere in the thread's I've read...

The topic is Capitalism, read what its supporters say.

>This is new to me, I assumed it was amoral. What makes it immoral?

Virtue ethics, Judeo-Christian-influenced philosophy, some deontologists.

While you're at it, maybe look up logical induction. I recall Philosophy Tube [1] has a good video on it, if you're so inclined.




If you’re going to quote “the rules” would you mind following them as well?

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation;




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