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Re: Brad - TLC needs to minimize packaging
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Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:10:32 GMT
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Scott E. Sanburn wrote:
> > Of course there are a few products which I almost wish came in more
> > packaging. Have you ever tripped over a basketball in the toy section of
> > a super store? If they were in a box instead of unpackaged and left in
> > those huge baskets, kids wouldn't throw them all over the place.
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> I have, and it is annoying. Packaging those, I think, might be cost
> restrictive, as well as space. It is a lot easier to hose 1,000 loose
> balls than 1,000 packaged ones.
Well, I don't think it would be any easier to hose 1000 loose balls than
1000 boxed ones, but it would certainly do less damage to the product,
however, the hose really should be aimed at the teenage jerks who play
ball in the toy store aisles...
> > I also see some value in legislation which kicks us in the pants to
> > clean up our act. I wonder where minorities would be today without all
> > the civil rights legislation?
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> Well, I hate to say this, but environmental regulations versus civil
> rights legislation is, in my view, two totally separate things. Treating
> humans equally is a universal right, mandatory environmental
> regulations, with inane or outdated laws, is debatable, and clearly an
> overreach of power of the federal government.
True, but many of those civil rights laws infringe just as much on
Liberatopia as environmental laws.
> >
> > Of course if we had a true Liberatopia, most of these problems wouldn't
> > exist, because all the costs and benefits would be properly balanced,
> > instead of most of the costs being hidden.
>
> Liberatopia, as in Libertarian, or as in liberalism/leftism? I will take
> the first, rather than the latter.
Libertarian.
--
Frank Filz
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| (...) Trying not to take this out of context or anything, when you say hose, are you saying store, as in storing the balls? I am slightly confused & perplexed on my own, not by you or anything, I think I need more coffee..... (...) Really? What ones (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I have little sympathy for stupid consumers. I see too many of them at my second job for that. "This was supposed to be 80% off, there was a sign." Lets say they have a Christmas sweater. (Actual example) I went back there to see, and it was (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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