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From: ThosStew@aol.com
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In a message dated 9/24/2002 11:24:58 AM, jamesr@best.com writes:
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>This situation wouldn't have happened in the first place if California
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>didn't have economically insane regulations. They created a regulatory
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>climate that facilitated this. So yes, it is the product of
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>over-regulation.
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>
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Which is to say, if you reduce the argument to absurdity, that law causes
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crime.
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(Yes, I agree that badly written law can make life so frustrating that people
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have little choice but to subvery it if they want to get anything done. This
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is also true of corporate policies, and all other attempts to regulate
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conduct by rules. Rules just don't work well when situations are fluid or
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ambiguous. But I don't think that the misbehavior of energy companies in
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California can properly be called well-intentioned lawbreaking by parties who
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were trying to do the right thing but could do so only by falling afoul of
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some technicality.)
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If you want to get to root causes, we should probably go to the slaying of
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Abel by Cain. Perhaps we can figure out what went wrong then, and roll our
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learning forward through history and create a FoRKtopia.
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Nonpartisanly, which is to say casting stones on all houses, whether
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bicameral or unicameral, built on sand or on rock, to the left of them or to
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the right of them, of glass or brick or twig or straw,
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Tom
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