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Well, I agree with you, though I don't think Nazi Germany or even mafia-style stuff is really what CH was heading for. Note:

that would then be in favor of environmentalism and against morality.  So, what to do?
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 05:02:38 PM EST
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So knocking out the powergrid for several weeks would be the humane thing to do with people who have opinions they are not entitled to by right?

So people would not watch FOX.  

The power was out for several days in a row in Chicago as a result of/during a heatwave.  Something like 600 people died, mostly the elderly and poor.  Like mostly the elderly and poor died during Katrina.  There was a storm that knocked out power for a week in a small town in southern IL where my brother was an emt.  They were working 24/7 trying to take care of people with breathing machines, people with various illnesses.  They could not save everyone.  Many people would not be able to work with the power down, and people who stand a paycheck away from homelessness.  Emergency communications would be effected.  Hospital equipment would be effected.  There would be deaths, many, and not humane, if we were to embrace this "solution."  His word, not mine.  These are not lives anyone has the right to determine to be collateral to the higher purpose of solving the environmental problems.  Which may very well happen even despite our best efforts.  But that's a lot different than imposing this as a "solution."  

And again - people are entitled to their opinions.  By birth.  Not because someone on a blog deems their opinions worthy.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 05:16:03 PM EST
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You say above you quoted CH, but you ignored the bit I quoted. You're ascribing a whole bunch of opinions and proposed actions to him that he's not pushing.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 05:25:26 PM EST
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For me, the best solution would be US wide grid failure, so people couldn't watch Fox for a few weeks.

He wrote that, so yes, I am ascribing it to him.  Normally, that's how it's done.  

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 05:32:55 PM EST
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