"mandate it and work out the kinks later". Is it so unreasonable to be against this? (Reply #30)

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Mon Jan 6, 2014, 05:53 PM

flamin lib (14,042 posts)

30. "mandate it and work out the kinks later". Is it so unreasonable to be against this?

Yes. Otherwise we wouldn't have Social Security, Medicare, any of the automotive safety devices common today. All written into law and fixed, tweaked and perfected.

So, yes, it is unreasonable as proven by history.

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42 replies	Author	Time	Post
Is It Time To Put Chips In Guns? [View all]	SecularMotion	Jan 2014	OP
I prefer to put them in dips.	Common Sense Party	Jan 2014	#1
LOL.	Ranchemp.	Jan 2014	#2
Post removed	Post removed	Jan 2014	#3
It's a fair question: Why don't you discuss your own OPs?	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2014	#6
Well, he did. See where he called a fellow DUer a "Stalker?"	Eleanors38	Jan 2014	#37
Not stalking, don't flatter yourself.	Ranchemp.	Jan 2014	#20
...or as someone once said...	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Jan 2014	#34
Yeah.	Straw Man	Jan 2014	#4
No	ileus	Jan 2014	#5
What if I sale it?	flamin lib	Jan 2014	#12
RFID makes sense on three levels;	flamin lib	Jan 2014	#7
"It makes unauthorized use impossible..."until it's hacked	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2014	#9
Okay, so in a confrontation with police an assailant takes the officer's	flamin lib	Jan 2014	#11
In that instance it would be helpful	bossy22	Jan 2014	#13
It doesn't make sense on many levels	bossy22	Jan 2014	#15
Just be honest, okay?	flamin lib	Jan 2014	#17
I would not oppose it in that case	bossy22	Jan 2014	#18
Ya mean like fly by wire? Or drive by wire?	flamin lib	Jan 2014	#22
Again, I don't have an ideological problem with it	bossy22	Jan 2014	#23
Up thread you commented that	flamin lib	Jan 2014	#27
You are more than free to work on it	bossy22	Jan 2014	#28
"mandate it and work out the kinks later". Is it so unreasonable to be against this?	flamin lib	Jan 2014	#30
no its not	bossy22	Jan 2014	#31
Thalidomide was not produced or prescribed in the US.	flamin lib	Jan 2014	#32
So a testing regime did its job?	bossy22	Jan 2014	#35
Someone spent time coming up with a prototype.	Eleanors38	Jan 2014	#38
Exactly	bossy22	Jan 2014	#40
When the military and the police widely implement it, i'll consider it.	AtheistCrusader	Jan 2014	#8
One comment illustrates the mindset of the proponents:	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2014	#10
So I have a concealed weapons permit and am out walking my dog with a five shot snub nosed ...	spin	Jan 2014	#25
It also illustrates the problem with our soundbite politics	bossy22	Jan 2014	#41
It's not as simple as many believe	bossy22	Jan 2014	#14
The technology is here now and functional.	flamin lib	Jan 2014	#16
that were true, several gun manufactures are	gejohnston	Jan 2014	#19
Yeah, I cited that up-thread.	flamin lib	Jan 2014	#24
go ahead, produce it, test it	bossy22	Jan 2014	#26
It won't happen any time soon because	flamin lib	Jan 2014	#29
so maybe that should tell you something	bossy22	Jan 2014	#33
This is getting really boring. I answer every objection yet you find	flamin lib	Jan 2014	#36
you didn't answer anything	bossy22	Jan 2014	#39
in the laboratory	bossy22	Jan 2014	#21
So what is your point of discussion here?	Packerowner740	Jan 2014	#42

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