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Why good intentions collide with self-interest

I voted for reparations but when they announced it might raise property taxes I started looking at houses in other districts.

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Abstract moral commitments often dissolve when they demand concrete personal sacrifice.

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“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical and economic case?”

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