[ExI] former deceased nfl players...

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 7:20 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Rafal Smigrodzki
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 20, 2015 3:38 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] former deceased nfl players...
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> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 8:21 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> >>…Every time we buy a ticket to a pro football game, every time we
> patronize a college bowl game or even the local high school team, we
> encourage a sport for which we now have pleeeeenty of evidence wrecks their
> brains, plenty.  Ja I know it is a fun sport to watch.  But it is bad news,
> very bad news.  If we participate at any level, we have helped these
> galoots do this to themselves.
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> >>…Go ahead, I am prepared to have my ass kicked, and I probably deserve
> it.  But football wrecks brains, and our society causes football.  So where
> is the collective guilt?
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> ### I'll one-up you on that: They say that transmitting one megabyte of
> data over the internet equals a pound of coal (or something - exact numbers
> are for bores). There is a miner or trucker or some other poor schlub
> killed for every couple gigawatts that are used to push these bytes between
> us. So, Spike, you just callously contributed, through your internet and
> electricity demand, to the death on an innocent blue-collar worker! And he
> has children, who are now crying inconsolably!!
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> Are you feeling guilty yet?  :)
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> Rafał
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> HAH got ya Rafal!  My family is from coal country.  I am practically made
> of coal.  Or rather I am chemically very similar to coal.  For every KW I
> devour computing and sending email, I create JOBS for poor schlubs and
> truckers and such, which feeds their families!  So I am saving them from a
> horrifying death of starvation and the hopeless heartbreak of unemployment,
> which often results in alcoholism and suicide.  I helped prevent this, just
> by using electricity.
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> So no, I am not feeling guilty, on the contrary.  I am feeling a warm
> fuzzy from a job well done.
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### Plus, remember the NFL players' girlfriends, who are greatly enjoying
the money that the players earned from you!

Indeed, liberal capitalism is a guilt-free pleasure.

Rafał
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