Re: TRUCE AND CONSEQUENCES
"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
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On Thu, 26 May 2011, [email protected] wrote: >> If doing something is better than nothing, Obamacare was the best thing >> to do. Um, well, not necessarily. If "saying something" is better than "saying nothing", then it makes a big difference whether you say "F--- you!" or "I love you" or "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!". It does not follow that any one of those things was "the best thing"; obviously, some of them would be better than others. And in some cases, saying some of those things might, in fact, be *worse* than saying nothing. Colonel Brighton: Look, sir, we can't just do nothing. General Allenby: Why not? It's usually best. -- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot