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By the right of sacrifice? Is this a veterans-only warehouse or something?

The US created a bunch of billionaires, but it also created the richest middle class. Let’s cut back the drama a bit and maybe discuss a law to improve safety?

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Drama? What about the epidemic suicides and drug overdoses happening in this country? What about the absolute destruction of rural communities by monopolies emboldened by the lack of antitrust enforcement? The people of this country are being abused in so many ways and nothing is being done for them. Laws aren't going to help this situation, it's our stinking attitude that's the problem. It's our complete disregard for human life that's the problem.

I may be off base here but this sounds an awful lot like perfect being the enemy of the good. Or, framed another way, idealism being the enemy of the pragmatic.

Waxing poetic about everyday tragedy is all well and good as a rhetorical device. However, it doesn't really do anything except to sow the seeds of division now does it? Especially when you cap the whole bit with the idea that it is thought that is wrong and not action.

And your proposed solution to this is effectively a paradigm shift in the perception of human value?

I'm sure you're the type of person that thinks poems are written to solve some sort of problem. Not all human communication is about expressing some solution to a problem. We can communicate sentiment and points of view as well.

Hey man, at least we aren't speaking German!

No, it's a sombre note that the state conscripted men and sent them to their deaths. To defend a free country. Which was especially free to the rich, it turns out.

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