Who shall we sacrifice for the greater good? Shall we sacrifice one child for two elderly? One healthy adult for two sick?
Whichever is worth more based on a subjective measurement
Readit NewsBraxton1980 commented on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair attheu.utah.edu/health-me... · Posted by u/geox
Congress has a substantially greater impact on the business climate than the President.
And Congress is controlled by the president as overriding a veto is extremely difficult.
Wasn't trying to be political, just making an observation that 4 years is probably too short of a time to credit policy changes within a single administration.
Why aren't you trying to be political? What exactly do you think "political" is?
Isn't literally this, but unironically, what dem supporters are doing in the least voted comments here?
Why try to make it as if it was the "opposite side" doing it while I'm reading it?
Because Trump is an exception due to his abuse of executive power.
Braxton1980 commented on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair attheu.utah.edu/health-me... · Posted by u/geox
> shouldn't you always decide to help the most people?
no.
Why?
Braxton1980 commented on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair attheu.utah.edu/health-me... · Posted by u/geox
"greater good" is arguably the most broad statement with a large history of hurting many people based on the "greater good".
For each instance did it help more than it hurt?
Not to simplify but if you have to make a decision shouldn't you always decide to help the most people?
Braxton1980 commented on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair attheu.utah.edu/health-me... · Posted by u/geox
There are valid reasons to oppose regulations. They can be used to create barriers of entry for small businesses, for example. They constantly affect the poor more than the middle class.
There are valid reasons to oppose specific regulations not all.
Imagine I open a auto repair center and I perform oil changes. It would cost me money to have used oil hauled away or I could dump it down the drain. You probably support a requirement that I pay for the service.
I'm sure there are regulations that cause actual harm to small businesses that have little or no value but I wonder what percentage it would be of the total.
Braxton1980 commented on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair attheu.utah.edu/health-me... · Posted by u/geox
In my opinion it is obvious and should be uncontroversial that some environmental regulations work and are great and should if anything be reinforced, while other environmental regulations do more harm than good and need to be reigned in or eliminated.
Turning "environmental regulation" into a unified bloc that must be either supported or opposed in totality is a manipulative political maneuver and it should be forcefully rejected.
Regulations are not people, and they don't have rights. It is fair and reasonable to demand that environmental regulation justify its existence with hard, scientifically verifiable data or else get chopped. Clearly, banning leaded gasoline has that kind of justification, and therefore I'm strongly in favor of maintaining that ban and extending it wherever it isn't in place yet. The same reasonable standard should be applied to other regulations across the board.
>Turning "environmental regulation" into a unified bloc that must be either supported or opposed in totality is a manipulative political maneuver and it should be forcefully rejected.
I'm aware of political parties and politicians who make statements similar to "We have too many regulations" or "stop big government" I'm not aware of opposite.
Braxton1980 commented on Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ck2
That could be a problem in itself. It certainly is here in the UK.
If you have two parties that have much the same policies you do not get necessary change and voting becomes meaningless.
No, what you get is less radical change which I believe overall is better even if it can make solving some problems difficult
No Democrat politician has ever stated that Republicans have a mental illness for hating Joe Biden. Nor have they come up with a phrase similar to Trump Derangement Syndrome to describe it.
This is why I don't like "both sides" people. Overall Republican voters and their representatives are worse people.