> 80,945 against and 75 in favor
Life in a democracy?
Life in a democracy?
>> But despite deep public opposition, the agency concluded that the company's plan met with legal standards.
I’ll take equal interpretation of the law over mob rule any day of the week.
-- @lex_looper
Defending potentially bad behaviour solely on the basis that it’s legal behaviour may not be the best defence (outside of a court of law.)
The point of the quote was to point out that laws aren't necessarily right.
And this point you keep making about it only being a small % of the total water isn't very convincing. I'm sure you would mind if I embezzled 1/2000th of Michigan's GDP.
A better comparison would be if you invoiced Michigan for 1/2000th of their GDP and the state and local governments paid it. In that case, I'm fine with it.
And neither is the public.
We once needed a law and show of force against public demonstrators to let black children into schools.
They were not comparing the activities.
Equating the legal system of Michigan with the legal system of Nazi Germany is ludicrously incorrect.
Seems like the residents need to direct their energy towards lawmakers.
Of course anything surrounding Michigan, Nestle and water is going to attract attention and serve as the backdrop for uninformed people to vent their anger. And despite all the backlash the adminstration followed the law and the right call was still made.
The rivers drain into it quite far apart though.
In the internet age, it's almost worse with the sheer amount of disinformation which cannot be contained or offset in both directions, for the better or the worse of a given candidate.
It's disillusioning and outright sad. That doesn't even account for external pressures and interests.
We have killer propaganda though.