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> but that doesn't mean we should pay for apartments for English majors with the money we're currently spending on bombs. If we took half the money we now spen
by iak8god 10y ago
> but that doesn't mean we should pay for apartments for English majors with the money we're currently spending on bombs.
If we took half the money we now spend on bombs and spent it on apartments for English majors instead would the result be a better or worse society than we have now?
- crystalmeph 10y agoI am questioning the premise that making the taxpayers pay for English majors' apartments is worth the money you take from the taxpayers. Just because the money isn't being spent on bad idea "A" doesn't mean bad idea "B" should get funded.
- iak8god 10y agoI know. We probably just disagree about the ordering of these possibilities: * Keep spending $B/2 on bombs * Give $B/2 back to the taxpayers instead * Use the $B/2 to support cultural activities that are not profitable enough to support themselves