Re:Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor
by ikeboy on Saturday January 14, 2017 @08:22PM
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If you really mean that maybe more corruption/conflicts of interests are needed, you're going to need to spend more time arguing for that than a couple of paragraphs in a nytimes profile.
Re:Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor
by Gargoyle on Saturday January 14, 2017 @10:27PM
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A different view on his corruption statement.
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/01/bor...
' If you would like a “left wing example,” had the fiscal stimulus been twice as large, corruption in government probably would have been higher too (pointing out “the stimulus wasn’t very corrupt” is missing the point and in fact is a sign that you are a rampant mood affiliator, determined to restore the mood you feel is just, rather than tracing the analytic point at hand). In other words, Peter’s point is entirely defensible and probably correct. He’s not saying that “corruption is good.”'
That's a kind of a strange road to go down, isn't it? I think usually the whole argue-in-good-faith thing, together with the principle of charity, require you to assume people mean what they say.