Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (705950)	3/26/2013 5:46:25 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1587267

>There you go again. Same old straw man. If I'm not for a large soda ban, I'm against any regulation at all. It's not a straw man -- it's a rejection of the validity of the slippery-slope argument you're presenting. >That's a stupid excuse. So what if they are? We wouldn't notice or care if they weren't. >What if I told you the video game industry is putting hundreds of millions of dollars into getting more kids hooked onto video games longer? Would you then be in support of a video game limit? I didn't think so. First, video games aren't decidedly a bad thing. I just don't see soda and video games as equivalents. Second, again, limiting the demand end is not the same as limiting the supply end. If video games were proven harmful, then yeah, maybe I'd be willing to look at solutions by the government. But I'm not going to try to solve a problem that doesn't exist. >That's the idea, but you should know how tough that actually is in practice. If they were to follow down your slippery slope to something resembling Demolition Man, I think we'd be able to do that. But we won't. -Z