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Originally Posted by biggerboat
I pay school taxes and I don't have any kids in school. I dunno, education seems like a good thing. I'd be in favor of raising taxes so college was free for everyone. It would make us better.
He said "for the good of all humans", humans include selfish people. We all are to a degree btw. Even if you agree on public schools and public healthcare for example, and many people do, do you agree on the exact allocation of resources between the 2? do all agree? if you spend 20 for schools and 100 for healthcare, some people might consider it worse than 15 vs 105 , or than 25 vs 95, you can't definitionally ever find an allocation that satisfies everyone.
Then there is the matter of the exact total level of taxation even after agreeing on what to spend upon.
So you are literally almost never doing something for *all humans* no matter how much you try even if you remove selfishness from the equation.
Remember that everytime you spend a tax dollar on something, you are affirming that *all other possible allocations of that dollar are morally worse*.
Claiming you fight for *all humans* is an attempt to deny that basic truth.