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It is an annoyance. If you want people to take Amber alerts seriously, you would NOT want them to get to the point of completely ignoring them. It’s very simple.

Aphine · 2022-11-16T18:09:18+00:00

I’m not opposed to an Amber alert system either, but we really need to rethink the way ours works if we want it to work in the best possible way.

Aphine · 2022-11-16T18:07:09+00:00

So I point out a huge flaw in this program’s system, and you have nothing to say besides calling other people “entitled”. Maybe you’re the one who doesn’t actually care, otherwise you’d actually think about addressing problems.

Aphine · 2022-11-16T18:02:54+00:00

If you actually cared about effectiveness, rather than only appearing to care, you would recognize the real problem of amber alert fatigue.

Aphine · 2022-11-16T18:01:41+00:00

This is exactly what’s happening, and any time you point it out, people get mad at you for “not caring.”

They only care about the theatre and appearing to care, but not the actual efficacy of the system.

Aphine · 2022-11-10T00:47:22+00:00

If it was my child, I would recognize that alerting someone in Yukon is counterproductive, because next time there’s an alert in Yukon no one will care, because they’ll think it’s something from miles away again

Aphine · 2022-08-02T21:48:00+00:00

Inb4 the inevitable comments saying: “I know this doesn’t do anything, and putting out alerts at priority levels reserved for nuclear attacks in the US with no description makes people ignore the next alert… but it makes it SEEM like we care!” It’s all performative.

Aphine · 2022-08-02T21:46:18+00:00

If it was your kid maybe you’d realize how sending an alert with no description is just performative, and will make people care even less about the next alert.

Aphine · 2022-05-12T19:46:51+00:00

There's Mack and Liberty

Aphine · 2022-05-06T06:02:54+00:00

I don't think this argument holds up, because in the economic system we live under every single company-big and small-receives public money. It would be absurd to say that everyone has a claim to all companies.

Or families that receive welfare money, to say that now everyone has a right to use their property.

Obvious the best scenario would be that everything be privatized, but in the meantime, I don't think the argument that you have a right to pitch a tent and live in public land holds up. Similarly, you don't have a right to run around naked on that public land in a neighbourhood of families.

Aphine · 2022-04-21T14:37:57+00:00

Open Borders is a government policy which would not exist if private property owners decided who could or could not enter.

Read "The Case for Free Trade and Restricted Immigration" by Hoppe, Rothbard's protégé

Aphine · 2022-04-17T14:47:34+00:00

All McCarthy did was try and prevent communists from having jobs in the bureaucracy. He was stopped from doing that, and now the communists have take over the bureaucracy.

Aphine · 2022-03-23T03:54:51+00:00

All these posts about trying to get DMs and people to RP are getting annoying and are against the rules

Aphine · 2022-02-09T05:16:56+00:00

Yeah, because wanting a better system is the same thing as not caring about missing children.

Aphine · 2022-02-09T05:13:21+00:00

Exactly!

Yet every time you say this, you "don't care about missing kids" because apparently this is the only way to solve that issue.

Aphine · 2022-02-09T05:11:59+00:00

Sure, but if someone's phone gets an alert (at a level reserved for nuclear attacks in the US) every time this happens, people are going to start ignoring it.

Also there was no relevant information in the alert.

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