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To: Road Walker who wrote (13539)	2/23/2010 4:30:13 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

"...but I really doubt that is what Lane meant." It's what she said. "Rather than" was what she said, but what it means is based on context. Picking one thing "rather than" the other, implies you made a choice, but not that it was the only possible choice. A false dilemma, is something like "we must choose X, or we must choose Y", with the implied but usually not directly stated "there is no Z". In this case, there was no direct statement or implication, that there where no other options other than emphasizing fairness and economic outcomes as the criteria, only that putting the stress on economic outcome would be a good idea.