An 18 year old girl was killed by a texting drunk driver. He was just acquitted. He is rich.

[Gregorian]

156. Thanks. Common sense was what I was thinking of too.

But it's absent from litigation. And rightly so. But still, it seems there ought to be a way to include it somehow. I mean, in engineering when one solves a problem, and has a number, we then do a sanity check. We run that number by rough numbers that are like boundaries of the problem. We ask if it makes sense.

You know, I was thinking of you when I was on a bike ride the other day. It was about this subject. How we have all of these laws that, for example, the EPA has established. Good laws. But yet they are only symptomatic of the real issue. We don't dare touch the real issue of reproducing another human. And just why not, I now ask. Is there something so sacred about reproducing? I think not. It's not some right. It is just another biological function. So we protect the fish, and yet are free to produce more mouths with which to further decrease the fish population. There is no common sense to it. But it's a futile discussion, with respect to population, since we're always going to be free to continue doing what we're doing. I think it's going to become pretty obvious soon. Especially when people see just what is going on in China. Their population is just starting to put their carbon footprint to the test. I don't even remember what this thread was about.