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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (47001)11/9/2010 11:11:53 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Cost effectiveness is usually important, but its often irrelevant. Relevance has to do with a connection to the specific point at hand, not the importance of the idea, or even its relevance to related points, or to the general area the conversation is about.

Cost effectiveness is irrelevant to the question "IS our navy about oil?". Its very relevant to the question "How much should we spend on the navy?, and to "What functions should we have our navy perform?", and to "How should we preform those functions?", and to a huge number of other questions, but not to our point of disagreement about whether or not naval spending to keep sea lanes should be considered a subsidy for oil.

If it is considered a subsidy for oil, you can and should consider the cost effectiveness of that subsidy. If it isn't, you can and should consider the cost effectiveness of the spending anyway. Its obviously an important question. It just isn't one that's relevant to our main point of disagreement in this conversation.
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