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Why does half of congress even think re-adopting the gold standard is a good idea anyway?

Mostly because, y'know, there's not actually any requirements to get elected. Many of these people are not economists, or even remotely competent or interested in anything to do with the economy. They couldn't tell a good economic idea from their own arse.

_{naturally, we've elected them to have a large influence over american economic policy}

That'un's exploration or debug mode, then. Infinite lives, on the spot full respec. No thinking necessary~

... though, yoink. Is... that a cell phone?

Tentacooooo~

There's a webcomic about that, more or less.

Well.

Probably more than one.

And it's likely none of them should be linked or mentioned, so alright then.

Look people, the 70s were weird, okay?

Though to be fair, they're still making stuff like that basically everywhere. Most of it just isn't explicitly published, nor a relatively well known and received literary work.

Beyond that, there's a number of sentient oranges in media. Plenty of 'em get the treatment.

Eh. The thing that trips people up is that ethics isn't subjective, but how it manifests is. Ethics at its core is a very simple thing: It's how to achieve desired ends. That's literally it. And that's not going to change based on actor, nor is the extent that desired end is achieved (which is measured by effectiveness and efficiency, how well the end is achieved and how easily it can be repeated, more or less) -- neither the method nor the measurement changes.

What changes is the desired end... but the trick is that that's not an issue of ethics or morality, it's an issue of aesthetics. Which is pretty subjective, by most considerations of the subject, or at the least very fluid based on the situation.

So people get kinda' confused, from what I've seen. They see ethics as a variable rather than a static formula that contains a variable. Which is a fairly different thing.