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if you own a factory and the legislators make your factory illegal, that's a ban. "well you can just upgrade" is no consolation. one day your factory is allow
by tonymet 8mo ago
if you own a factory and the legislators make your factory illegal, that's a ban. "well you can just upgrade" is no consolation. one day your factory is allowed, the next day it's not.
Why mince words?
- epistasis 8mo agoI was advocating specifically against mincing words so that appropriate remedies can be pursued. "Unbanning" coal isn't going to make coal appear again! If there's a specific regulation on one aspect of a factory, as you describe, then "unbanning" the factory isn't going to help either, one must specifically unban that which was banned. Mincing words would be saying "Factories doing X are banned" when in fact an existing Factory doing X with negative externality Y had negative externality Y priced or regulated. That's exactly what we shouldn't be mincing, if we want to address the problems and make better decisions.
- tonymet 8mo ago[flagged]
- epistasis 8mo agoGreat, me too! Trying to play semantics rather than clearly stating reality, or trying to make a picture fuzzy so that inaccurate generalizations take priority over reality, is not a a good way to run a democracy.
- tonymet 8mo agoIt’s a republic .
- epistasis 8mo agoIt's a republic and a democracy, but every person I've heard say "it's a republic" erroneously believes that the US is not a democracy, and that republics can't be a democracy, because somebody told them that once and they liked the sound of it without ever checking it. So, who's mincing words?
- tonymet 8mo ago[flagged]
- mint5 8mo agoHey you seem puzzled by the Republic vs democracy concepts so I’ll throw you a bone. Here’s a clear explainer that will solve your confusion: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/democracy-and-republic https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/democracy-and-republ... If you don’t have time to read it, the short answer is the USA is both a republic and democracy!
- tonymet 8mo agoMerriam Webster settled it!