On: The Plan to Give Every Cellphone User Free Data

[nathanasmith]

>>> the social benefits outweigh the very small cost.

Of course they do, when it's somebody else's money. Bye bye karma or whatever it's called on this site.

[nl → nathanasmith]

I don't think dsr_ is arguing that the social benefits outweigh the very small cost - I think he's saying that's what Song's argument is.

Bye bye karma or whatever it's called on this site.

Pretty sure comments like that will get you downvoted and detract from anything you are saying on any site.

I think pretty much everyone here would acknowledge how problematic that argument is.

[nathanasmith → nl]

>> I think he's saying that's what Song's argument is.

I didn't say anything about whose argument it was just implying that it was specious.

>> Pretty sure comments like that will get you downvoted

I stopped worrying about internet points long ago.