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The Law of Supply and Demand At Work
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<blockquote data-quote="John Mastrocco" data-source="post: 565276" data-attributes="member: 54595"><p>TJ,</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Once again, the similarities must have significance to have any meaning.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If the comparison is generic enough everything could be made to appear the same. That is what you did - you made a statement so generic it applies to almost every single organization in the world. As such, it has no significance or meaning beyond the statement itself. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So one must ask what was the purpose of making the statement? The only motive I could see, based on the comments in the rest of this thread, was to use the common perception in the USA that OPEC is an evil organization intent on extorting as much money from non-members as possible (which your generalization also implies) and by comparing OPEC to unions you make the unions "guilty of the same evil" through association. This is a common tactic that, IMO, has no validity to anyone capable of logical thinking. But it is used often by some to sway the illogical - a tactic politicians have perfected over the years..</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Personally I make no judgements on which organization is bad and which is good as there are good and bad points to both of those organizations and any individual could see either organization as good or bad depending on one's POV. I believe I indicated that was my belief with the portion of my post you decided to omit in the quote, that being:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Mastrocco, post: 565276, member: 54595"] TJ, Once again, the similarities must have significance to have any meaning. If the comparison is generic enough everything could be made to appear the same. That is what you did - you made a statement so generic it applies to almost every single organization in the world. As such, it has no significance or meaning beyond the statement itself. So one must ask what was the purpose of making the statement? The only motive I could see, based on the comments in the rest of this thread, was to use the common perception in the USA that OPEC is an evil organization intent on extorting as much money from non-members as possible (which your generalization also implies) and by comparing OPEC to unions you make the unions "guilty of the same evil" through association. This is a common tactic that, IMO, has no validity to anyone capable of logical thinking. But it is used often by some to sway the illogical - a tactic politicians have perfected over the years.. Personally I make no judgements on which organization is bad and which is good as there are good and bad points to both of those organizations and any individual could see either organization as good or bad depending on one's POV. I believe I indicated that was my belief with the portion of my post you decided to omit in the quote, that being: [/QUOTE]
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