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To: The Philosopher who wrote (12443)	4/26/2001 1:39:02 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Rant started on LWP but moved here because Poet might be distressed with me if I left it there. Is response to Message 15719378 I tend to forget that the California deregulation was supported by the Republicans. If they had only left well enough alone. But I bet the price caps were insisted on by the Democrats as the price for going along. And the Republicans probably agreed because they believed the free market approach would be so successful that the price caps would be irrelevant. Ah, don't we just LOVE politics? But I worry about a fomer client of mine who worked for PG&E, has his retirement program there and most of his 401(k) in PG&E stock. Will he have to to work for McDonalds at 68? And all the widows who relied on the SoCal dividends to supplement their SocSec. But I worry more about what happens to my income when our power crashes because we're sending it all down to Calif because they made sure to build lots of nice tax and job producing server farms and high tech companies but made sure nobody could build a nasty polluting power plant to power those server farms and companies. Like no politician could see this coming years off?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (12443)	4/26/2001 6:20:44 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

Whatever ever happened to the notion that individuals are responsible for their behaviors? I hate to tell you this Chris, but many people think that lawyers and judges have contributed more to this than any other leaders of society. I think it is inevitable that the goal of whitewashing the behaviour of a client (or if you prefer, winning a case)--is bound to lead to new excuses for behaviour which become acceptable to the court, and thus become a matter of new law, and new social policy. I don't have time to tell you a story about a business man throwing a Company party for employees, personally helping to sober up an irresponsible drinker, and personally seeing her safe into her home--and being convicted for not baysitting her for a few more hours (she decided in a bit to go driving and either severely injured herself or 1 or more others or killed them or a combination. I don't remember and as I said: I don't have time to tell it. In any case, I am positive that you can come up with far more examples than I can to make the point that lawyers have contributed to a lessening of personal responsibility and consequences. Just pretend you are fighting a case on that premise...<gg>