Comment Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... (Score 1) 698
Not at all - but you must at least try to say something with good-faith plausibility, to make it worth our time.
Not at all - but you must at least try to say something with good-faith plausibility, to make it worth our time.
That doesn't seem like a productive contribution to the discussion. But assuming you enjoyed the verbal onanism, carry on.
"they're all up to the same standard. If one hospital is better at a certain procedure
Both those can't be so, unless the "same standard" is minimal.
"That means should you need healthcare, you never have to open your wallet."
Irrelevant what led them to become bad. The point is that once they're bad, some other good guy needs to stop them.
Right?
A good guy (ideally with a gun) better be closer than 10 minutes.
There have been many mediocre articles on the ACM Queue in the last few years
... "racial quota is illegal"
So the same monster is simply dressed up in a different costume.
"Everyone wins."
Not the person farther down the Desirable Minority totem pole who was overlooked.
" the company has obligations under Affirmative Action "
"affirmative action" is not an obligation. It is a (poor) choice.
That organization has embodied weaponized identity politics to such an extent that an article quoting them non-ironically deserves dismissal.
"requirements apply to public colleges"
Not "non-profit" ones.
We can't have any pressure on public colleges to stop producing $useless_degree graduates, can we.
"didn't personally want to make his private life so public" somehow clashes with "I'm so proud
"money was taken from you in order to provide yourself a retirement in your old age"
That relationship is only putatively causal. The money taken from "you" has already been spent, several times over.
You might note that it is because of social engineers that taxpayers are paying those transfers in the first place.
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.