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There's this old scene in the Simpsons where Grampa Simpson stands up and says, "Sure, we COULD fix up main street," and everyone in the town hall meeting cheer

There's this old scene in the Simpsons where Grampa Simpson stands up and says, "Sure, we COULD fix up main street," and everyone in the town hall meeting cheers, and he says, "shut up! I'm just saying we COULD blow all our money on a stupid little street," and the townspeople cheer again and lift him on their shoulders. Anyway, your comment reminded me of that. I'm less familiar with lead in water. If that was just lack of science knowledge, that's different than, say, deliberately putting lead in water to make it easier to profit off the people drinking it.

TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
Thanks for the funny reply. Good to laugh. Lead pipes and lead-based solder is just one example and if you don’t like that example because it happened due to “lack of science”, I can come up with others. My point is that there are countless atrocities in America’s past, recent and not so recent. How can we compensate everyone who deserves it and how can we prioritize one group (e.g. descendants of slaves) over another (e.g. descendants of Native American civilians who were slaughtered at one of the many massacres)? We can’t and shouldn’t.
- chordalkeyboard 6y ago
  > How can we compensate everyone who deserves it and how can we prioritize one group (e.g. descendants of slaves) over another (e.g. descendants of Native American civilians who were slaughtered at one of the many massacres)? you're looking at this backwards. They both have claims pending. We can pay both of them if we choose to.
  - TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
    As soon as those claims are paid, the floodgates will open and you can’t say “no” to others when you’ve said “yes” to the first because... racism.
    - chordalkeyboard 6y ago
      > As soon as those claims are paid, the floodgates will open and you can’t say “no” to others when you’ve said “yes” to the first "yes we can" -US President Barack Obama
      - TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
        Yes, YOU can. Give your funds to such causes. Not me and not my government.
        chordalkeyboard 6y ago
        I'm not responsible for slavery, the US (and other) governments are.

TedDoesntTalk 6y ago

Thanks for the funny reply. Good to laugh. Lead pipes and lead-based solder is just one example and if you don’t like that example because it happened due to “lack of science”, I can come up with others. My point is that there are countless atrocities in America’s past, recent and not so recent. How can we compensate everyone who deserves it and how can we prioritize one group (e.g. descendants of slaves) over another (e.g. descendants of Native American civilians who were slaughtered at one of the many massacres)? We can’t and shouldn’t.

chordalkeyboard 6y ago
> How can we compensate everyone who deserves it and how can we prioritize one group (e.g. descendants of slaves) over another (e.g. descendants of Native American civilians who were slaughtered at one of the many massacres)? you're looking at this backwards. They both have claims pending. We can pay both of them if we choose to.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
  As soon as those claims are paid, the floodgates will open and you can’t say “no” to others when you’ve said “yes” to the first because... racism.
  - chordalkeyboard 6y ago
    > As soon as those claims are paid, the floodgates will open and you can’t say “no” to others when you’ve said “yes” to the first "yes we can" -US President Barack Obama
    - TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
      Yes, YOU can. Give your funds to such causes. Not me and not my government.
      - chordalkeyboard 6y ago
        I'm not responsible for slavery, the US (and other) governments are.