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Personally if I were a computer company like Dell, I would just stop selling computers in south carolina. If people want them, they'll go out of state or order them online.

Neo: You set off my trap card. That's the "solution" which nobody has advocated, which I came up with on my own because, dontchaknow, the effects of the real solutions just weren't extreme enough to compare with the effects of pretending climate change isn't real and drilling like there's no tomorrow.

Let's pick a topic to consider for what you're saying. How about response to climate change?

You have:
1. Ban drilling/mining fossil fuels and buying or selling them, which would destroy the economy and get whoever imposed it thrown out of office
2. Impose a carbon tax. Generates revenue for the state while making using fossil fuels less economical.
3. Tighten fuel standards in an attempt to reduce how much is coming out of cars. This does not affect existing cars and as we have seen companies have cheated because that was easier than actually managing it without losing fuel efficiency.
4. Provide subsidies to green/clean energy companies, and possibly consumers.
5. Remove subsidies for fossil fuel companies.
6. Drill, baby, drill.
7. Claim that climate change / global warming is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," is a hoax created by the Chinese, etc, and therefore see #7.
8. Kill subsidies for green energy companies because one that the government funded failed one time!

These are not all mutually exclusive. The only "similar" opposites I see are removing subsidies for fossil fuel companies or green energy companies, which, although they are the same action, have opposite effects because they have different targets.

I don't think you can fit an individual's personal beliefs on a horseshoe any more than you can on a line.

Reelya has already explained, but you've apparently chosen not to listen. Thus, me sad.

Losboccacc, you make me sad.

Congrats ventuswings

Germany was never going to be able to pay the reparations which were demanded of them.

Obligatory prophetic quote:

I believe that the campaign for securing out of Germany the general costs of the war was one of the most serious acts of political unwisdom for which our statesmen have ever been responsible.