"The exception is where sunlight is unavailable"

Don't forget the inverse-square law either.

"if you were to take into account mining, pollution, and adverse health impacts of coal and gas ..."

What are the chances that those costs can be "taken into account" (imagined) differently by different people?

"victim blaming" is a straw-man term designed to make those so accused look foolish. Everyone understands that there are many links in the causal chain of an undesirable event. No one who points at a few ("X took nude selfie") excludes the existence of the other ("Y stole it") necessary links.

If you don't understand why "smart guns" are a threat to normal gun owners in certain states, you are not educated on the subject.

That seems like showing bathing baby photos to grandma is criminal.

"We were married eight months later."

What took that long? Getting emacs vs. vi settled?

"you can only argue about the intended target"

That also depends mostly on the user.

"fraudulent" is quite an accusation. If you try to outlaw market crashes/corrections, you will kill the market, and then what of your retirement savings?

"Market fundamentalists would argue, 'let the utilities die. "

No, market fundamentalists would argue, let the mandated subsidies to solar etc. die first.

" I think it's self explanatory. " ... because that's where the money is ...

"Americans please take note, this is what happens when you elect conservatives."

You missed the part where the Labour party supports the draft law.

Whine whine whine ... environmentalist research can be done outside funding & auspices of the federal government. Do it for "the truth", do it "for science".

Ezekiel is one of the architects of obamacare. Expect nothing inconsistent from him with the idea of getting the old (expensive) people to just go and die already; that's the only way that obamacare can survive (and even that's a long shot).

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Quantify, specify.

You like to eat don't you?"

Yes, but you're short on quantity & specificity on how it's to "society's benefit" to have (how many?) people live in rural areas.

Plus you will notice food is to some extent market-based, so people are paying for that "benefit" directly already. (Let's ignore stuff like food stamps or farmer subsidies, which don't exactly help quantify the benefits, only the costs.)

" benefits to society as a whole "

Quantify, specify.