[ExI] Yet another health care debate

Jef Allbright jef at jefallbright.net
Thu Sep 25 04:41:45 UTC 2008


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:41 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> So long as it isn't overwhelming, we can keep some fear and want,
> and still have a really good society that moves forward and develops lotsa
> cool new stuff.

It's surprising to me that on this list it's still unsettled that
while gradients are essential to the ratcheting forward of "progress",
fear and want (and other impairments for the sake of simple contrast)
are not.

- Jef



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