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"Why don't we" Way too many people ask "why don't we" before figuring out what they are talking about. Arthur Andersen got the death penalty. If you point tha
by perl4ever 7y ago
"Why don't we"
Way too many people ask "why don't we" before figuring out what they are talking about.
Arthur Andersen got the death penalty. If you point that out, people will argue with you, no the death penalty would be something different.
It doesn't matter what you think a word or phrase means, you should have a good idea of what you mean by it before advocating it.
- twomoretime 7y agoWhat? I'm identifying a need and a possible solution. Now we have a civil discussion with the goal of exchanging information.
- perl4ever 7y agoSorry if I sounded hostile, but I'm saying that when you use a phrase and assume everyone knows what it means just because everybody uses it, that's not identifying a solution and it's not a starting point for a discussion. I'd love to have a discussion about the corporate death penalty, as long as it's based on some concrete idea of what it is and why it should help. It's a topic that comes up over and over and I wouldn't even comment if I wasn't interested in something substantive and different from the norm.