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It is not hypocritical to continue doing x while arguing we should all as a group reduce or eliminate x. This is simply an argument for a new social agreement, and that agreement hasn't been made yet. If anything, trying to force one party to start paying switching costs in advance of a new agreement is a sly attempt at freeloading.
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Like getting the USA or Australia to neuter our economy in the name of climate change while China and India do what they like.
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Wokko wrote:Like getting the USA or Australia to neuter our economy in the name of climate change while China and India do what they like.
No, that's called a concession. Concessions are granted to parties due to contingent or mitigating circumstances which render an action relatively more costly or burdensome to them.

Freeloading occurs when someone who doesn't warrant a concession tries to get others to pay in their stead.
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watt price tully wrote:What a stupid thread. Really?

I just spent 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back. The OP should be posting on a kindegarten forum (with apologies to the kindergarteners as its way below their intellectual capacity)

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pietillidie wrote: No, that's called a concession. Concessions are granted to parties due to contingent or mitigating circumstances which render an action relatively more costly or burdensome to them.
So...... salary cap concessions were a good idea for Brisbane and Sydney?

did you cheer for them in 02 & 03?

Concessions are just bullsh!t.
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They don't "speak out" against right wing commentators; none of whom are neo-Nazis or white nationalists despite the despicable dog whistle. They deplatform and violently attack the speakers and their supporters, pulling fire alarms or threatening murder and mayhem to get events shut down.

As for 'campus hate symbols' that's mostly the left doing it too.

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According to this and as far as I can tell there have been 106 successful dis-invitations organized from the left to 69 from the right at American colleges.

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Pi wrote:According to this and as far as I can tell there have been 106 successful dis-invitations organized from the left to 69 from the right at American colleges.

https://www.thefire.org/resources/disin ... per_page=5
You've got to adjust that for how despicable and appalling the respective views are. Raw numbers are meaningless.
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^
......so Nonie Darwish is despicable; :roll:


Camille Paglia was considered left leaning at one point not so long ago or does voting for the green party make you a Nazi..


.....If raw numbers are meaningless then the gender pay gap is a myth; right? , or is this just another example of hypocrisy?
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The gender pay gap IS a myth
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Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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Wokko wrote:The gender pay gap IS a myth
I'm guessing you're male
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partypie wrote:
Wokko wrote:The gender pay gap IS a myth
I'm guessing you're male
Considering that paying people differently for the same work based on gender has been illegal for decades, how about we just call it statistical hyperbole then?
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