Re:Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)
by Trundle on Sunday February 05, 2017 @08:06AM
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>... And then died due to the loss of money from the transaction. A transaction with a short term benefit that results in long term disaster is not really a benefit. It's like being sold slow poison.
Extending their life by a month doesn't result in the long term disaster though. They already have cancer. I don't follow extending life = slow poison at all.
>People often have no choice. Like with the cancer drugs, if their only other option is to die, it really isn't a choice.
So the benefit to performing the trade is so great that they wouldn't even consider not making it is somehow an argument against the trade being a benefit?
The rest of your argument appears to just boil down to "there are exceptions". Cool, checkmate on that one. You found exceptions. Bravo.
Extending their life by a month doesn't result in the long term disaster though. They already have cancer. I don't follow extending life = slow poison at all.
>People often have no choice. Like with the cancer drugs, if their only other option is to die, it really isn't a choice.
So the benefit to performing the trade is so great that they wouldn't even consider not making it is somehow an argument against the trade being a benefit?
The rest of your argument appears to just boil down to "there are exceptions". Cool, checkmate on that one. You found exceptions. Bravo.