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- From: liberte@cs.uiuc.edu (Daniel LaLiberte)
- Subject: Re: why
- In-Reply-To: dc_ags@ac.nsac.ns.ca's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:28:07 GMT
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Dept CS
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:07:59 GMT
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- You'll score pretty low for this response (not that it is a game):
-
- In the first place, I see government as the agency responsible for setting
- the agenda for all of society, including agriculture.
-
- If government could be trusted to do a good job at this, I wouldnt mind.
- But the US government, for one, hasnt shown that it is trustworthy.
-
- It was the so-called `environmental movement' that was making the largest
- noises, and their message was that anyone who was associated with the
- industry of agriculture OR anyone who was involved with government wasn't
- to be trusted, simply because they were the beneficiaries of the conspiracy
- that was being foisted upon the public.
-
- I'd say they are not to be trusted not necessarily because there is a
- conspiracy (which there may be) but because the incentives are all
- wrong for them to do the right thing. Campaign finance reform will do
- a lot to restore the government, but that is for another group.
-
- I wish to point out, however that their very existence (i.e. these
- so-called environmental groups like the green movement and
- greenpeace) was unnecessary.
-
- This is nonsense. The US government was designed to support popular
- uprising such as the environmental movement (free speech and the right
- to organize) in response to government inaction or misdeeds. The
- government has dragged its feet every step of the way on environmental
- programs. It may be the government's duty to remain cautious, but
- it's gone dangerously too far.
-
- as I said, their continued existence serves no useful purpose...
- the changes that they are advocating are in the process of being made...
-
- ... and unmade. Why should the government do anything unless the
- people force it to? The environmental movement is part of how the
- people force it to do what it has agreed to do.
-
- One person already enlightened me to the fact that nobody in the
- green movement makes more than $20,000 a year.... give me a break!
- You're trying to tell me that someone is going to organize a
- national movement, manage large amounts of money doing so, and is
- themselves going to earn poverty wages, all in the name of
- HUMANITY?? Come on... I wasn't born yesterday!
-
- Ahem! First you say the organizers are making too much money, and now
- you say $20,000 a year is not nearly enough. Yes, people will work
- for such low wages in the name of humanity. I worked for a few years
- myself for almost nothing. So how much do you think is reasonable,
- and how much are you speculating that they really make?
-
- As I've said, there is no conspiracy linking government and big
- business to agriculture... the systems are the way they are because
- they evolved that way, not because someone hatched a grand plan to
- poison the world for profit.
-
- It need not be a consciously organized conspiracy. Conspiracies can
- evolve as well as be hatched in a grand plan. One campaign
- contribution here and another kickback there, and they all add up.
- OK, so that may not match the definition of "conspiracy", but it
- amounts to the same thing.
-
- You, Don, through your lack of good judgement in how you post, through
- your uncalled for, insulting remarks to various people, and through
- your obviously fallacious arguments have lost my trust in just about
- anything you might say.
-
- Dan LaLiberte
- liberte@cs.uiuc.edu
- (Join the League for Programming Freedom: lpf@uunet.uu.net)
- "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
- -- Vice President Dan Quayle."
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