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[ShadowHM]

However, that person has chosen stupidly to convert their treasure into wasteful transportation. It's their problem, not yours. They paid the going rate for the expensive transportation, as opposed to the more frugal among us who would opt to be more economical. In the long run, we win and they lose. If you get government out of the vehicle industry, you'd see more equity.

I have to nit-pick on this one. If the 'going rate' for fuel actually represented something like replacement cost and included the 'cost to the commons' of the air pollution and carbon emissions that go with high fuel usage, you might get some agreement from me.

But we in North America, and you, particularly, in the U.S. of A. do not pay anything like that in fuel costs. So, unfortunately, it is my problem and yours. Our commons are being used up.

Oh, and on this:

That, and with gender based abortions, their gender gap will leave them with in excess of 24 million bachelors by 2020. They may not recover from this horribly engineered society. I'm really not that supportive of tyranny, suffering, and democide so no, the ends do not justify the means.

I didn't notice eppie suggesting that the end did justify the means regarding China's attempts at population control. All he said was that we could already be in worse shape if they had not.

/lurk mode

Carry on!