"I have a limited budget, and these people over here are offering me what I want at prices I can afford, whereas these people over here are trying to rip me off mightily."
Kind of a no-brainer as to how that's going to end up.
Chris, actually my concern is that if he is such a blatant cheerleader in things like this, where else does he have his finger on the scale to make things match his desired results?
I still don't understand your complaint.
If tomorrow, the supreme court releases an opinion saying that police officers can search your house anytime they want, for any reason, and without any oversight, I would call it a terrible ruling. If instead, the supreme court decides that the 4th has been trampled on too much already, and that our rights need to be strengthened, I would call that a fantastic ruling.
How is that "having my finger on the scale"? Are you saying everybody should paint every ruling in a neutral light, regardless of their opinion? That makes no sense. This is an opinion blog.
Do you also go onto Yelp and complain that some people have good things to say about some restaurants, and bad things to say about other restaurants?
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Presently that's accomplished with the witness protection program.
I'd consider moving away from your home and giving up contact with anyone you ever knew to be "forfeiting your life".
Giving someone an option between (A) you destroying their life now, and (B) you sending armed men to kidnap them and throw them in a cage until they agree to do what you want, and then you'll destroy their life? That ain't moral by any stretch of the imagination.
You really dont have to go back very far in history to see what a lack of public education looks like.
Our schools are getting worse while they're getting more expensive. I'd like to save the money that currently goes towards our failing public schools and instead put it to work in a school that competes for my dollar through actual results. Why is that a bad thing, exactly? Why raise utter failure up as the standard for what we should strive for?
Also, I love paying tolls where I live. Tolls mean that I pay for exactly what I use, rather that the state taking some random number of dollars from me at gunpoint whether I use the roads a lot or a little. I wish every road was a toll road.
You're right! We should dynamite all our fancy machines and live in mud huts like our ancestors, scrounging for food in the muck. Then we'll have equality! And nobody will ever need to learn anything new!
Seems to me, most gov spending actually does create efficiencies which allow for more productivity in the private sector
Assuming the private sector couldn't create roads itself, and do it cheaper, thus saving money for other productive ventures.
Public education allows for an educated workforce - probably the single greatest job creating/efficiency force on the planet.
Assuming our failing, massively expensive, one-size-fits-all education system doesn't crowd out private educational systems that could do a better job of educating our kids for cheaper.
This seems to be related to a particular blind spot that appears when people talk about government services: "If the government is doing it now, it must therefore be true that it would never happen without the government."
It's like someone in soviet Russia claiming that the government creates jobs by running supermarkets, because otherwise, there would be no supermarkets and everyone would starve to death.
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But what about the situation where court is going to hurt someone - either the witness who doesn't want to testify, or the defendant who needs the witness' testimony? Which hurt is worse?
Hurting an innocent to stop someone else from hurting an innocent seems like a poor way to go about things. I won't violate my code of morality simply to stop someone else from violating theirs.
If you think it's OK to send them to jail because they can't get the evidence they need, then OK, I just disagree.
And yet you think it's okay to send someone to jail if they don't forfeit their life by testifying against the mafia, for example. So yes, we disagree. :)
You assume that taxes and government expenditures are the only way to pay for those things, and therefore if the government doesn't provide it, it must not exist at all.
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I award you an A+. Phenomenal trolling.
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I'll still take it over an authoritarian boot to the face, though.
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I respect the rights of others. Property rights over one's own hard drive, for example.
So-called "intellectual property" law violates property rights, so I have no respect for it. Simple as that, really.
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Everybody does, and so do you if you have any moral fiber to your being at all.
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"I have a limited budget, and these people over here are offering me what I want at prices I can afford, whereas these people over here are trying to rip me off mightily."
Kind of a no-brainer as to how that's going to end up.
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I still don't understand your complaint.
If tomorrow, the supreme court releases an opinion saying that police officers can search your house anytime they want, for any reason, and without any oversight, I would call it a terrible ruling. If instead, the supreme court decides that the 4th has been trampled on too much already, and that our rights need to be strengthened, I would call that a fantastic ruling.
How is that "having my finger on the scale"? Are you saying everybody should paint every ruling in a neutral light, regardless of their opinion? That makes no sense. This is an opinion blog.
Do you also go onto Yelp and complain that some people have good things to say about some restaurants, and bad things to say about other restaurants?
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I'd consider moving away from your home and giving up contact with anyone you ever knew to be "forfeiting your life".
Giving someone an option between (A) you destroying their life now, and (B) you sending armed men to kidnap them and throw them in a cage until they agree to do what you want, and then you'll destroy their life? That ain't moral by any stretch of the imagination.
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"So . . . you're accusing Mike of having a consistent opinion that differs from your own?
I'm sure he's distressed at the news."
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I'm sure he's distressed at the news.
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Our schools are getting worse while they're getting more expensive. I'd like to save the money that currently goes towards our failing public schools and instead put it to work in a school that competes for my dollar through actual results. Why is that a bad thing, exactly? Why raise utter failure up as the standard for what we should strive for?
Also, I love paying tolls where I live. Tolls mean that I pay for exactly what I use, rather that the state taking some random number of dollars from me at gunpoint whether I use the roads a lot or a little. I wish every road was a toll road.
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"There's some lovely filth over here!"
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Assuming the private sector couldn't create roads itself, and do it cheaper, thus saving money for other productive ventures.
Public education allows for an educated workforce - probably the single greatest job creating/efficiency force on the planet.
Assuming our failing, massively expensive, one-size-fits-all education system doesn't crowd out private educational systems that could do a better job of educating our kids for cheaper.
This seems to be related to a particular blind spot that appears when people talk about government services: "If the government is doing it now, it must therefore be true that it would never happen without the government."
It's like someone in soviet Russia claiming that the government creates jobs by running supermarkets, because otherwise, there would be no supermarkets and everyone would starve to death.
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Hurting an innocent to stop someone else from hurting an innocent seems like a poor way to go about things. I won't violate my code of morality simply to stop someone else from violating theirs.
If you think it's OK to send them to jail because they can't get the evidence they need, then OK, I just disagree.
And yet you think it's okay to send someone to jail if they don't forfeit their life by testifying against the mafia, for example. So yes, we disagree. :)
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This is incorrect.
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I approve this message. ;)
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