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Amen. Doing the wrong thing is easy. Doing the right thing is hard. These are thermodynamically-mandated rules that cannot ever be circumvented by cleverness or money or hard work.

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Therefore, doing the easy thing is wrong.

Usually. If you are doing the easy thing, so can your competitors. Your competition usually can't do the hard things.

Not necessarily. p=>q does not mean q=>p, after all.

It does when !p=>!q.

!p=>!q is exactly q=>p, and p=>q has nothing to do with that.

I feel like you should read the original comment again.

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