In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
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It seems to me that your analysis misses the point altogether, so much so that you are replying to a straw man.
The post at Mid Atlantic labor isn't recommending that the economic activity generated by the oil spill be counted as part of the GDP. It's merely stating that the activity IS AS A MATTER OF FACT counted toward the GDP.
You treating a description as if it were a prescription.
To me that makes as much sense as, say, attacking someone's accurate description that prostitution is illegal in Delaware as though it were an argument that it should be illegal.
Two different critters.
You got this comment in the wrong post and I don't know how to move it, so I answered it over there.
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