Peter, When you can get _that_ agitated by a mild word "hoax", said in jest, and go on to call everyone what you do, it doesn't lend much credibility to your arguments.
"Holy crusaders of mother Gaia"... Sorry, Peter. Calm down. Best, Jostein 2008/1/29, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Their solutions are not necessarily correct either.. I should know > better than give an inch in this debate. The holy crusaders of mother > Gaia don't seem to take human suffering, except for their own, and > sometimes not even that, into account. If the suffering is far enough > away, or doesn't conform to their political argument, then it's > unimportant or strangely not happening. The people living in poverty in > far off lands "want" to live that way, and it's "better for them" anyway > to retain their quaint customs instead of adopting the same comforts of > "so called civilization", (I'm using words here that I've heard all too > often from so called environmentalists in quotes), that the > environmentalists, most of them safely protected from any real nature > enjoy. After all if the regulations that are necessary to "Save the > Planet", cause a factory to close, or not be built in the first place, > and a relatively poor person to lose their job or never get a better > one, and go to bed a little hungry, maybe live a shorter more brutish > life with few amenities, it was the businesses fault for not building > or closing that factory, or the systems fault for not "incentiveizing" > some kind of work for the nether regions or the world or capitalisms > fault because it's so rapacious, never the regulators or the > environmentalists. They almost never discuss costs vs benefits except > to dismiss them, or dismiss those who try to take them into account. > > AlunFoto wrote: > > P.J. Alling wrote: > > > >> I hate this use of the word Hoax. A hoax doesn't harm people, except > >> maybe the pride of the gullible. If the global warming fanatics are > >> wrong, then many people will be harmed by their actions. If they're > >> right then serious actions should be taken, though not unnecessarily the > >> ones they propose . Either way the debate isn't helped by the use of > >> improper terms. > >> > > > > "Fanatics" are the ones who drive this debate to where most of us have > > to take a stance. But using it as a label for the other group doesn't > > help the debate much either. :-) > > > > Love yer sentence ".. though not _un_necessarily the ones they propose". > > > > Cheers, > > Jostein > > > > > > > -- > I am personally a member of the Cream of the Illuminati. > A union with the Bavarian Illuminati is contemplated. > When it is complete the Bavarian Cream Illuminati will rule the world > -- Anonymous > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
