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Re:The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value by sitkack on Monday December 26, 2011 @12:44PM (#3393383)
I think he is actually really bummed because his worldview is incongruent with how Darwinian and shitty the world actually is. Optimists take it the hardest.

"the optimists don't make it out of vietnam" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stockdale

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Re:The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value by forensic on Monday December 26, 2011 @02:55PM (#3393772)
The reason I support punishing the guilty instead of letting them get away with it is because I'm a realist.

It's pacisfists who are the optimists. Pacifists who say we should just let Cheney and Blankfein off the hook. I say we should tar and feather them, precisely because I understand that if we don't, things will get worse. This is not an optimistic viewpoint.

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