You may not engage in homosexual activity because of the externality of God smiting the city and/or sending a hurricane.
Well the problem is god isn’t real.
You may not eat hamburgers because of the externality of catastrophic climate collapse.
Your hamburger becomes slightly more expensive because there is a carbon tax.
I would say your examples are abusing the concept (And I have seen them before because people make trashy arguments all the time). The concept itself makes lots of sense.
My problem is you are mixing up real and not real things. They are different. The whole post above assumes a civilization of way more sanity from people in power and the people watching them than the one we live in.
Well the problem is god isn’t real.
Your hamburger becomes slightly more expensive because there is a carbon tax.
I would say your examples are abusing the concept (And I have seen them before because people make trashy arguments all the time). The concept itself makes lots of sense.
My problem is you are mixing up real and not real things. They are different. The whole post above assumes a civilization of way more sanity from people in power and the people watching them than the one we live in.