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> Water rights carry a legacy of centuries of personal and political history and thousands of competing interests. So did slavery, and we managed to get rid of
by stickfigure 4y ago
> Water rights carry a legacy of centuries of personal and political history and thousands of competing interests.
So did slavery, and we managed to get rid of that.
Doing the right thing is really not that complicated, it just requires political will.
- swatcoder 4y agoThat may not be the example you want to use for something accomplished completely or without complication.
- remarkEon 4y ago>So did slavery, and we managed to get rid of that. ... with a civil war. Doing the right thing is often quite complicated, and comes with severe costs and injury to some party somewhere.
- COGlory 4y ago600,000 immediate American casualties (not to mention the slaves) is not a great example here, of something being "simple"
- formerkrogemp 4y agoCOVID killed over a million. The culpability for that isn't simple either.
- COGlory 4y agoWhat does that have to do with this topic?