Sorry, still not buying it: - Copyright law -- you're saying "things are corrupt because people took a while to start organizing against the corruption", right? So... there was corruption to start with. - Liability -- perhaps I'd believe this statement if it was just as vigorously supported by labor unions as by corporate lobbyists. - Health -- if we stopped making *any* advances in medical research and started providing basic and equitable care for everybody, the standard of living would go up. Thus in a sense, we don't need anything that the US has that other countries don't have. (And by "we" I don't mean you or me, I mean the people who actually need health care and aren't getting it.) - Environment -- crippling industry don't mean a thing if we aren't going to have a place to live 100 years from now (again, not "you" or "me" but...) and of course lives are going to change radically, because the American upper-middle-class way of life is unsustainable. We're certainly not going to figure out what those meaningful environmental regulations might be if we're afraid of those things. And I don't think it's the people who work at 3 shitty jobs to make ends meet and lead miserable lives as it is who are afraid of things changing.
Certainly neither you nor I has the last word, but I am unlikely to be convinced that these are not, to repeat myself, areas of moral certainty.
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- Copyright law -- you're saying "things are corrupt because people took a while to start organizing against the corruption", right? So... there was corruption to start with.
- Liability -- perhaps I'd believe this statement if it was just as vigorously supported by labor unions as by corporate lobbyists.
- Health -- if we stopped making *any* advances in medical research and started providing basic and equitable care for everybody, the standard of living would go up. Thus in a sense, we don't need anything that the US has that other countries don't have. (And by "we" I don't mean you or me, I mean the people who actually need health care and aren't getting it.)
- Environment -- crippling industry don't mean a thing if we aren't going to have a place to live 100 years from now (again, not "you" or "me" but...) and of course lives are going to change radically, because the American upper-middle-class way of life is unsustainable. We're certainly not going to figure out what those meaningful environmental regulations might be if we're afraid of those things. And I don't think it's the people who work at 3 shitty jobs to make ends meet and lead miserable lives as it is who are afraid of things changing.
Certainly neither you nor I has the last word, but I am unlikely to be convinced that these are not, to repeat myself, areas of moral certainty.