03-16-2017, 04:16 PM
(03-16-2017, 11:10 AM)The Wonkette Wrote:(03-15-2017, 03:58 PM)Galen Wrote: I never thought of it that way but your right. Should serve as an object lesson as to why governments need to be kept small.Yeah, except for the small detail that I enjoy breathing free air. Reducing pollution is one of those "externalities" that the free market isn't very good at handling.
Another externality is mass ignorance. People need education so that they can recognize that lead, chromates, mercury, dioxin, etc. are dangerous effluents.
There's a town near me that I am surprised hasn't been been razed. Companies that used to operate there dumped huge quantities of chromates and volatile organic chlorides. The ground water is to be avoided.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.