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how to think about cutting in line: a follow-up

Here is the sec­ond half to my pre­vi­ous post on this topic, as promised. CAUTION: Ideas in progress! Con­struc­tive crit­i­cism wel­come. It seems to me that there is a (rough) dis­tinc­tion between two kinds of lines: those that are insti­tuted for prac­ti­cal pur­poses, and those that con­fer moral sta­tus upon the per­sons at the front. First,