Reply #70: oh well [View All]

[iverglas]

And here I thought ... nah, I didn't really.

Are toilet seats bad? -The ones found in airports are.
And they didn't cost thousands of dollars, presumably.

So it looks like price is irrelevant.

Are hammers bad? -Ones that cost thousands of dollars are.
Really? When you swing them, do they not drive nails into place?
Forgive me if I do not accept this statement entirely at face value.

In any event, the question was "are hammers bad?" -- not "are hammers that cost thousands of dollars bad?"

Are firearms registries bad? -The one in Canada is, for sure.

And so he declines the invitation to present argument, content merely to babble.

The hammer that cost thousands of dollars still drive nails into place. And a firearms registry on which a negligent government wasted too much money still keeps records of firearms.

Both do what they were designed to do. Both cost too much.

Can I assume that the US government has put all the toilet seats and hammers for which it paid too much into a big dumpster, and vowed never to buy any more? Obviously, they were no good, and others like them will also be no good no matter how little they cost ...

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