So what if a corporation dumps waste in the river, exposes workers to a toxic environment, over harvests the ocean or destroys entire species, abuses monopoly powers to destroy competition, or any number of negative externalities?
Cutting corners and not getting caught (or getting caught but the penalty being less than the gain) can be very profitable. Sometimes the damage being done is hidden long enough that a corporation flourishes. It's not hard for permanent damage to be be done on either a personal or a very large scale. Suing the corporation doesn't really fix the problem.
Also, corporations have no conscience, no remorse, and basically act like a sociopath.
Corporations don't have the rights of an individual, they have the privilege of acting as in individual in very specific ways.
Is it just me, or do libertarians seem to believe that it's better to be abused by a corporation than by the government. Maybe they thing they'll be the one in the corporation that gets to do the abusing... I dunno
If you own a home and make 200,000 and can afford to keep one partner from working - then you have more than most of the people around you.
The only reason that you "own" anything at all, is because the people around you agree that you do. If enough of them feel that you don't deserve what you have, you're going to have a hard time protecting it.
oops - oh well.
Anyway, I just think we have a responsibility as the take care of and preserve the ecosystems - even if it isn't as "efficient" at filling the pockets of the greedy few.
I believe that diversity is a good thing. I also believe We have a responsibility to ourselves and to future generations to
Plus I really enjoy watching animals, especially large animals.:) And ya know, it'd be nice if my daughter and hopefully future grandchildren, great grandchildren and so on, could live in a world that still had those.
It looks like you think that the national debt should be proportioned EQUALLY among all citizens...
How about dividing the national debt based on percentage of wealth?
Like, letting those who own 98% of the resources pay for 98% of the debt?
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Dani did say, among other things, that she regretted having non-orgasmic genitals and that some of her family abandoned her due to her transition.
If she really regretted transitioning, wouldn't she have transitioned back? (Which she didn't...)
Ya know, despite it being the 21st century, there is still an incredible amount of ignorance, bigotry, hatred and violence directed towards trans people.
Even though sexuality, sex and gender are all different things, the overlap in the discrimination experienced by anyone who don't fit neatly into society's assumed stereotypes for these things groups them together.
Trans have been at the forefront of gay rights for a long time... look up the Stonewall riots in 1969...
That's why the 't' is in lgbt.
it's only binary if you define 'dead' as the point in which an organism is no longer capable of life
sometimes things that "look" dead become alive again... so how do you determine when irrevocable death occurs?
unfortunately, the value of property is often is proportional to it's scarcity.
so if you make an exact copy of someone else's corn farm, you are directly changing value of their farm ( you are increasing supply of corn)
maybe you could work something out so that you're increasing the value of your neighbor's corn, if you and they work together and share some costs associated with running, harvesting, selling, shipping, etc the twin farms
but more likely you're decreasing the value of the other farm's yeild because now you're (at least a potential) competitor
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context baby, context
- apparently some people understand what that is, but apparently you don't
The data doesn't need to be massaged to show that
So what if a corporation dumps waste in the river, exposes workers to a toxic environment, over harvests the ocean or destroys entire species, abuses monopoly powers to destroy competition, or any number of negative externalities?
Cutting corners and not getting caught (or getting caught but the penalty being less than the gain) can be very profitable. Sometimes the damage being done is hidden long enough that a corporation flourishes. It's not hard for permanent damage to be be done on either a personal or a very large scale. Suing the corporation doesn't really fix the problem.
Also, corporations have no conscience, no remorse, and basically act like a sociopath.
Corporations don't have the rights of an individual, they have the privilege of acting as in individual in very specific ways.
Is it just me, or do libertarians seem to believe that it's better to be abused by a corporation than by the government. Maybe they thing they'll be the one in the corporation that gets to do the abusing... I dunno
#ironic
If you own a home and make 200,000 and can afford to keep one partner from working - then you have more than most of the people around you. The only reason that you "own" anything at all, is because the people around you agree that you do. If enough of them feel that you don't deserve what you have, you're going to have a hard time protecting it.
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yea, prolly so
+1 Interwesting
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+1 insightful
oops - oh well. Anyway, I just think we have a responsibility as the take care of and preserve the ecosystems - even if it isn't as "efficient" at filling the pockets of the greedy few.
I believe that diversity is a good thing. I also believe We have a responsibility to ourselves and to future generations to Plus I really enjoy watching animals, especially large animals. :) And ya know, it'd be nice if my daughter and hopefully future grandchildren, great grandchildren and so on, could live in a world that still had those.
Didn't it take a VERY LONG TIME for repopulation to happen... ?
The difference might be that your ISP probably can't retroactively provide details of the last five years of what you've been doing...
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It looks like you think that the national debt should be proportioned EQUALLY among all citizens...
How about dividing the national debt based on percentage of wealth?
Like, letting those who own 98% of the resources pay for 98% of the debt?
Dani did say, among other things, that she regretted having non-orgasmic genitals and that some of her family abandoned her due to her transition. If she really regretted transitioning, wouldn't she have transitioned back? (Which she didn't...)
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I was thinking the exact same thing ...
http://www.geocities.com/grinningkat/Elven_Decker.jpg
Ya know, despite it being the 21st century, there is still an incredible amount of ignorance, bigotry, hatred and violence directed towards trans people. Even though sexuality, sex and gender are all different things, the overlap in the discrimination experienced by anyone who don't fit neatly into society's assumed stereotypes for these things groups them together. Trans have been at the forefront of gay rights for a long time ... look up the Stonewall riots in 1969...
That's why the 't' is in lgbt.
it's only binary if you define 'dead' as the point in which an organism is no longer capable of life sometimes things that "look" dead become alive again... so how do you determine when irrevocable death occurs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraocular_lens
so if you make an exact copy of someone else's corn farm, you are directly changing value of their farm ( you are increasing supply of corn)
maybe you could work something out so that you're increasing the value of your neighbor's corn, if you and they work together and share some costs associated with running, harvesting, selling, shipping, etc the twin farms but more likely you're decreasing the value of the other farm's yeild because now you're (at least a potential) competitor