My rant was not directed against you Cam, you can be quire reasonable and actually use logic regularly. I am sure the guilty parties can identfiy themselves. But the freakonomics study you refer to is quite intersting, equating the drop in crime ove the last 15-20 years to the liberalization of abortion laws. That's the cool thing about behavioral economics in general what it find out quite frequently totally shoots down myths treasured by the left and right. Classic examples are behavioral traps (where short term gains have very negative long term consequences).
On Tuesday, March 6, 2012, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected] >wrote: > >> The testimony was not about free birth control. Ms. Fluke was talking about >> oral contraceptives being provided as part of the student paid for health >> insurance. Not free, paid for. What do those on the right wing need to >> understand this simple concept. Provided as part as the insurance package. >> Where is the difficulty in understanding this simple concept? Is it some >> sort of weird cognitive deficit that prevents them from seeing such? > > > Yeah, I haven't totally been paying attention to the thread. But it SHOULD > be free to everyone who wants it. Where do I donate my money so that some > girl doesn't get knocked up and have a kid at 16? At 20, at 24, at 30? > > Seriously. This is a stupid easy thing to help break poverty in the USA. > > Plus (and this is WAAAAY less significant IMHO), some people need it for > health reasons. > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348136 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
