On: Thiel's Unicorn Success Is Awkward for Colleges

[jchanimal]

Insane argument that regulatory capture is the best possible outcome. Are you suggesting anything more just would undo society?

[randomdata → jchanimal]

It is what society deems beneficial. That is not necessarily what is the best possible outcome, to what you see being the best possible outcome.

I suggest nothing. That would require injecting my feelings towards the matter, and that would be in bad faith.

[UncleMeat → randomdata]

We've truly gone off the rails if considering our own feelings for important matters like these is considered bad faith.

[randomdata → UncleMeat]

The discussion is about how the world is. Our feelings about the merits or failings of that world have no place in the discussion, and even if we were to share them what purpose would they serve? That is where you would find us going off the rails.