Nowadays, moral argument can only get you so far, it seems. In order to convince you of the real merits of a cause, the clincher is no longer whether it’s right or wrong — something we may never agree about in any case — but whether it’s cost-effective. After all, surely it’s hard to argue with the numbers.
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Peter Kurti is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies
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