[FRIAM] Help for texas

[Marcus Daniels]

Glen writes:


"It is not merely necessary, it is THE CASE that we are a whole and always "look after one another", in the end.  The question is about when to do the looking ... before or after bad things happen."


One could imagine cultures in which sick people are quickly euthanized similar like sick pets.  Or, in the interest of reducing taxes or debt, that there was refusal <http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article172024032.html> to fund hurricane relief.  Sure, there is no defining away that things are connected, but what is valued by the whole can be redefined or localized.

Another example is how large corporations sometimes break-up into smaller companies, e.g. HP and HP Enterprise.    It is not clear that rebuilding some resorts on the east coast of Florida impacts me as much as, say, Brexit.   Funding for recovery in Houston might make gas a little cheaper or certain domestic products, but such resources could also be routed from the middle east or Asia.   Now that nationalists are so influential, perhaps this a fine opportunity for them to prove they care about how they circumscribe the system.


Marcus
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On 09/10/2017 10:12 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> It is not necessarily the case that `we' are a whole and must look after one another.  The population can be partitioned into compartmentalized subsets.

You're conflating willing payment with unforeseen consequences.  When we don't look after one another purposefully, we end up "looking after one another" in the form of systemic damage to the whole system.  So, while you're right that we don't have to pay attention, purposefully, to risk pools, the costs will always be present.  By paying attention to it, the argument goes, we lessen the overall damage, at the cost of the "redistribution wealth" the right wingers are so afraid of.

So, you're wrong in the naive assertion.  It is not merely necessary, it is THE CASE that we are a whole and always "look after one another", in the end.  The question is about when to do the looking ... before or after bad things happen.

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␦glen?

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