PT109 · S3 · Q19 Raphaela: Forcing people to help

Out Of Scope Person 2: Morals Both Agree, If Anything Edward never touched on morally wrong, just whether governments do or don't have a right. He also never discussed what would be true for governments that don't permit emigration. We only know how he feels about those that do permit emigration. If we were stretching his comments in a Most Supported way, we would assume that Edward might be saying "the governments that don't permit emigration don't have the right to tax their people", in which case he would be agreeing with Raphaela.

We couldn't infer this categorical claim about what "ALL governments should do" from either person's statements. But, presumably, both parties would agree to this, since it's such a weak idea. "Fine, citizen, we'll allow you to voluntarily help other people."

Raphaela would presumably say YES to this, because she's implying by connecting the first sentence to the second that redistributing by taxation counts as forcing people to help others. But, we have no idea how Edward feels about the concept of "forcing". He might well agree that, "Yes, it is forcing. But since these governments that permit emigration aren't forcing their citizens to stay, they have the right to force the ones who choose to stay to redistribute via taxation".

The only person who would potentially agree to this is Edward, and we can't say that he's committed to this strong an idea. He says permits emigration ? has right to "force help" This answer is saying the reversed logic version of that forces help ? should permit emigration