Best Buy Says It Has Killed 'Showrooming' For Good

[Kelvin Mace]

141. Who are you to judge my compassion?

I have specifically repudiated the concept of "survival of the fittest", but simply point out that it exists. By your logic I condone burning every fossil fuel in sight because I point out that global climate change is a fact.

The morality of business cannot be compelled, you can only regulate business. Business is not a sentient entity. it is made up of people who as a group behave immorally. You cannot compel their morality, you can only regulate the group, and punish individuals with responsibility (something I am HIGHLY in favor of). Oh, you could also revoke their corporate charter, the corporate equivalent of the death penalty. If we were revoking corporate charters at the same pace as Oklahoma and Texas are executing prisoners, I'd be a happy guy.

But the reality is that most law in this country was written by corporations, and the law is slanted to be powerless in imposing any meaningful sanction on a corporation, or its constituent parts (i.e. people). Can this be changed? Technically yes, but in reality it is unlikely. We were making strides in reigning in the abuses of corporations until the "Reagan Revolution", and it has been all backsliding ever since (with LOTS of help from Democrats I might add). The gains we made with child labor laws, OSHA, the EPA etc, are now vanishing. Elizabeth Warren gives me hope, but she is ONE senator out of 100. But, despite that, I'll support her in what she does.

"Good grief. Listen to yourself. You sound like you've overdosed on Ayn Rand's craptastic philosophies. "Learn to deal or get flattened?"

I find this deeply insulting, and were I not a pacifist I would be demanding pistols at dawn. I LOATH Ayn Rand, and have written extensively against her teachings and philosophies. Do you really not understand the difference between explaining the reality of a situation and advocating for it? How is explaining the tactics of the enemy and how to counter them the same thing as condoning them?

Good thing MLK didn't tell those folks in Montgomery to learn to deal with the back of the bus or get flattened.

I suspect we'll not see you getting a Profile in Courage award any time soon.

I would never dare mention my own name in anyway with MLK, and I am not in this for any award.

Again, you know absolutely nothing about me, yet you insinuate I am a coward and a collaborator. I have done my time marching, getting out the vote, standing up against the police (and recently the Secret Service). I have stood toe-to-toe with Klansman and Nazis arguing against their bigotry and refusing to engage their violence (others were not so fortunate, look up the Klan/Nazi shootings in Greensboro, NC in 1979). I have suffered beatings in school for daring to "consort with black people".

Now, after 40+ years of this shit I have to suffer insults from someone who doesn't know the first thing about me.

I am glad you still have the fire of rebellion in you. But if you expect to get people on your side, you might want to work on not trashing them entirely based on a handful of isolated posts on a single topic.

At this point I think we are done with this discussion.