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Panic buying: It is immoral to stockpile food?

Monday, March 23rd, 2020

Short answer – anything up to a fortnight’s supplies is fine. Anything beyond that leads you into a moral minefield. Read more

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- Jim Dowling The absurdity of Muller's attempt to explain his thinking is mind boggling. Just voting on a law is trying to impose your opinion. Obviously! The very existence of government and laws is to impose opinions on every issue from economics, to traffic regulation, to abortion, to war making...
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