If you did examine the arguments, you didn't engage with them. Instead you dismissed the conclusion with a flippant hand-wave. Doctor: Here's why you should ta

If you did examine the arguments, you didn't engage with them. Instead you dismissed the conclusion with a flippant hand-wave. Doctor: Here's why you should take medicine. It is grape flavor jones: Underlying conditions be damned. I don't like grape flavor. Not taking it. Doctor 2: Yeah sure, just eat chocolate. jones: Here's my pharmacy's number If your use of the atmosphere on your property harms my health or otherwise detracts from the value of my person or property, then you should be liable. Liability shouldn't be limited by citing, "But I was within the EPA guidelines! Don't like it, take it up with the state! We all voted and you've had your say. Breathe in the toxic fumes democratically. You had your chance to elect politicians who in turn could appoint bureaucrats; Bureaucrats which can freely interpret and selectively enforce legislation as per their capricious whims. Yes, you've had your chance in the land of freedom." Is there a bigger tragedy of the 'commons' than democracy? Everything falls under the public prerogative. Who you should marry and what you should eat or drink is now part of the 'commons'. What is private today can just as easily become part of the "collective good".