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>Asking your government to adopt policies that is actively against the interests of most of the people in the country is immoral

My point was that this is something we all do. I have never met a single person who was always on the side of the greater good for every single political issue. I don't think voting or lobbying for your own interests is inherently immoral. If it is, basically all of democracy and capitalism is immoral.

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Being selfish, or: doing something extra for yourself that explicitly harms others, is inherently immoral.

No need to add grey space here.

So every time you have decided to drive your car somewhere instead of take public transportation you are being immoral? The reason we need nuance here is without it we are all evil people contributing to the destruction of the planet.

False equivalency and you know it

Well, yes, that was the point. I was highlighting the ridiculous of the previous comment’s universal statement that anything selfish that harms others is immoral. There is nuance here that a statement like that ignores.

Who cares? Complain to the Pope about immorality, and he'll make sure they go to Hell. While you work on that, hopefully someone is working on making tax filing simpler, and preventing lobbyists from blocking that effort.

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