Regarding opportunity costs, JDG said
... Economic Theory suggests that that is not proper foundation
for cost-benefit-analysis. According to generally accepted
economics, a government project should simply be considered based
on whether or not its benefits exceed its costs. ...
Regarding opportunity costs, nowadays, the question in the US should
not be whether school lunches use enable the US government to help the
military, or subsidize small farmers, or subsidize large
agribusinesses.
It should be whether that same money would be better spent by hiring
the farmers to
JDG wrote
... let's consider a reasonable definition of the US's
friends as being those countries with which the US has a
formal Alliance ... Of the 32 or so of these ...
To which I responded
That fails to provide much legitimacy. It is the same argument
as
Also, Hampden-Turner made the point that the most likely people
to make such a shift in the US culture of the time were people
whose background was one or other form of Christian puritanism.
That is because people in other US cultures tended to be more
forgiving.
Of
At 09:06 PM 4/14/2005 -0400, Bob Chassell wrote:
Counting countries does not work, unless that count includes big, rich
countries with a culture not too different from most Americans.
So, why are you including France then? ;-)
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At 08:41 PM 4/14/2005 -0400, you wrote:
Regarding opportunity costs, JDG said
... Economic Theory suggests that that is not proper foundation
for cost-benefit-analysis. According to generally accepted
economics, a government project should simply be considered based
on whether or
At 02:08 PM 4/14/2005 -0700, Dave Land wrote:
Nick:
I really don't mean to inflame things by asking, but would you apply
cost- benefit analysis to abortion? Is war really so different?
JDG:
No, as cost-benefit-analysis can never be used to justify an
intrinsicly
evil action. For
At 06:49 PM Thursday 4/14/2005, John DeBudge wrote:
Not having been a reader of this list for long though (and having only
started contributing in the last couple of days)
Welcome!
I could very well be
missing some old arguments or personality conflicts.
None that you (or any long-time members,
* Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Welcome!
Ronn's our welcome wagon for gmail trolls. Good job, Ronn.
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* Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
* Robert Seeberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
There is a Just Lunch doctrine.
At least where I work there is.
Just lunch..no nooner..just lunch.
Better to just skip just lunch and go straight to the chocolate cake
At 08:04 AM Friday 4/15/2005, Erik Reuter wrote:
* Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Welcome!
Ronn's our welcome wagon for gmail trolls. Good job, Ronn.
Thank you!
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:37:35 -0400, JDG wrote
Thus, even if a given act is not intrinsically evil, it is only morally
justified if the intent and totality of circumstances are good as
well.
I think I understand the position now. It is acting with good intentions,
doing things that have
JDG wrote:
Let's connect the dots:
-human life begins at conception
This is scientifically debateable. My favorite passage on the
scientific thoughts about when human life actually begins is from Carl
Sagan. I don't have the book on hand or I would quote it.
You can debate that the early
Several people that I work with would like to begin
sharing resources such as presentations, website
resource info etc. We are geographically dispersed
and tossed around the idea of adding a library to our
intranet, but the organizational aspect is something
we dread as this thing gets
Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And sometimes it's not a number, it's
a text string.
Some programmers don't seem to realize
this. At least, some programmers writing
code for programs at the university I
attended didn't at some point. It's
annoying to have the grade report arrive
At 12:31 PM Friday 4/15/2005, Matt Grimaldi wrote:
Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And sometimes it's not a number, it's
a text string.
Some programmers don't seem to realize
this. At least, some programmers writing
code for programs at the university I
attended didn't at some
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Subject: Re: Peaceful change
I can go back through the posts, but I see repeated claims that we
can find a choice that involves far less
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To: Killer Bs Discussion
Erik Reuter wrote:
* Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
* Robert Seeberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
There is a Just Lunch doctrine.
At least where I work there is.
Just lunch..no nooner..just lunch.
Better to just skip just lunch and go straight to the
* Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Thunder Cloud Subs at IH-35 and Sam Bass Rd. in Round Rock. Northwest
corner of the intersection. Thunder Cloud is in the strip at the
south end of the complex.
Ah, intelligence has provided us with the information we require. And
this is the axis
- Original Message -
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: Opportunity costs of war
we invade! Justice will be served!
With a side order of freedom fries.
Dan M.
Erik Reuter wrote:
* Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Thunder Cloud Subs at IH-35 and Sam Bass Rd. in Round Rock. Northwest
corner of the intersection. Thunder Cloud is in the strip at the
south end of the complex.
Ah, intelligence has provided us with the information we require. And
Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: Opportunity costs of war
we invade! Justice will be served!
With a side order of freedom fries.
No fries. They sell
Finally, I would argue that the only justification for killing and
war is weakness. If we were strong enough to stop evil actions
without such extreme measures, then we would be morally compelled to
do so.
I cannot agree with the premise that underlies this -- that evil is out
there
I see nothing
wrong with pointing to Saddam and saying that he was doing extremely evil
things. But the next step that we have take as a national policy, which
is to say that they are evil and we are good, seems to me is hubris of
the most
dangerous kind. It is nationalistic idolatry. We
I see nothing
wrong with pointing to Saddam and saying that he was doing extremely evil
things. But the next step that we have take as a national policy, which
is to say that they are evil and we are good, seems to me is hubris of
the most
dangerous kind. It is nationalistic idolatry. We
At 08:20 PM Friday 4/15/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: Opportunity costs of war
we invade! Justice will be served!
With a
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 08:20 PM Friday 4/15/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: Opportunity costs of war
we invade!
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