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Comment Re: This is what evil looks like - OH PLEASE (Score 1) 243

I believe you're a lawyer insofar as you didn't address what you're pretending to address and are sympathetic to the wealthy and powerful. The fact remains that damages can be rationally and provably assessed, as in the given example of a specific process causing net loss. I expect that in court the oil companies will have someone similarly diatribe about oil not being evil, or some other non sequitur that injects moral ambiguity into a straightforward matter. Or pretend that meaningful regulation is an existential threat to an industry you are simultaneously describing as inevitable.

Comment Re: U.S. War Department? (Score 1) 64

These are a baseless and rambling series of statements having nothing to do with my point that the Executive was at least envisioned as a relatively powerless position, focused on administration. I know your purpose is to muddy the waters and generate outrage but I like responding to things like this as if you were a rational being. Please feel free to make any other observations about me and I'll review them when I have time.

Comment Re: Not entirely surprising (Score 1) 94

It takes money to do those things. Money is often scarce when one is unemployed. I do agree with your sentiment, and unemployment can be a very different thing depending on whom and where you are. Just thought it bears mentioning that one can manage to make a rent payment and eat on an unemployment check, but in my experience the remainder was not sufficient for use as venture capital. Also, while this is attributable only to my shortcomings, I had a generally bad time during unemployment. It can be a source of great stress, and a Catch-22: I would place it as one of the times in my life I was least likely or able to exhibit the creativity and drive needed to change my situation. Ultimately I did, by being creative and applying myself, but I hardly pulled myself up by my bootstraps, and it took time.

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