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You say "and yet..." but it sounds like you're just elaborating on what the GP said. Was that a disagreement? GP's point was that redundancy has been accumulat
by scrollaway 10y ago
You say "and yet..." but it sounds like you're just elaborating on what the GP said. Was that a disagreement?
GP's point was that redundancy has been accumulated over the years. Of course there's usually a rational justifiable reason, but that doesn't mean it's still a valid one.
Really interesting stuff on the uniformed services.
- ubernostrum 10y agoOf course there's usually a rational justifiable reason, but that doesn't mean it's still a valid one. And yet... consider the Secret Service thing. Congress was reluctant to concentrate federal law-enforcement power in one agency. And the history of the FBI shows that may have been the right idea.
- scrollaway 10y agoI'm not sure what you're saying. Sometimes it's valid, sometimes it's not -- are we disagreeing or does "and yet..." mean something completely different than what I think it implies?
- ubernostrum 10y agoTypically when people say "that doesn't mean it's still a valid one", what they really mean is "it isn't still valid".
- scrollaway 10y agoI was speaking in general terms. You gave two very specific (and interesting) examples; among all the examples you can give, plenty of them will "no longer be valid".
- ubernostrum 10y agoAnd in general terms, when people say things like that, what they want people to read is "all of them are no longer valid".