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Re:Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism... by ovi256 on Thursday January 31, 2019 @08:08AM (#19044414)
Do not mistake campaign arguments for facts. They're more of the "arguments as soldiers" variety. It's rational to only care how effective they are at influencing public oppinion, they're not peer reviewed publications.
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Re:Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism... by benj111 on Thursday January 31, 2019 @08:21AM (#19044485)
Where do you stand morally?

You may be right, but it's not right

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Re:Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism... by ovi256 on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:06AM (#19045716)
It doesn't matter where one stands. If you want to fight against, say, the people that run campaigns, you'll have to fight in their chosen arena, that of public oppinion and elections. It's empirically found effective to use "arguments as soldiers" in that arena. If we chose policies through a peer-reviewed search for truth, we wouldn't have this discussion.
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Re:Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism... by benj111 on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:16AM (#19045810)
But then it becomes a race to the bottom.

So I think you need some enforcement of standards, whether moral or legal.

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Re:Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism... by ovi256 on Friday February 01, 2019 @04:55AM (#19052895)
And to enforce standards, you better win some elections, right ? And how are you going to win them ?
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