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Re:The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value by mikeash on Monday December 26, 2011 @03:39PM (#3393879)
Person A ignores his accuser.

Person B murders his accuser and goes on with life.

How exactly is B more accountability? As far as I know, Dick Cheney hasn't murdered any of his accusers.

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Re:The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value by forensic on Monday December 26, 2011 @05:27PM (#3394101)
It's not murder it's a duel. Big difference. Both duellists put their lives on the line.

How many people in America right now would be willing to have a duel with Cheney? Hundreds if not thousands. That says something meaningful about his role.

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Re:The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value by mikeash on Monday December 26, 2011 @05:44PM (#3394131)
I don't really see why a duel isn't a murder. Plenty of murderers put their lives at risk to kill. Just because the other guy agreed to it doesn't make it not a murder. I guarantee you that if I challenged somebody to a duel today and ended up killing him that I would go to jail for murder, and rightly so.
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