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When Children's Questions Expose Adult Moral Confusion

My teenage daughter asked me why we pay full taxes when rich people do not and I realized I had no good answer that did not make me sound naive or make our system sound corrupt.

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Explaining ethical choices to the next generation reveals the complexity and potential hypocrisy in one's own moral reasoning.

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