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JNugent[_5_] · September 7th 14, 09:22 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 06/09/2014 21:21, d wrote:

JNugent wrote:
d wrote:

But what I'm saying is there should be a limit on flights.

Why?

Are you unable to read or just stupid?

Neither of those.

Try and figure it out from previous posts.

Why?

Are you unable to justify your desire to prevent others from living
their lives as they wish and to force them to be like you?

If that means people can't
go to New York or Ibiza or wherever the next day then thats just too bad.

The market takes care of that. An immediate ticket LHR - JFK costs a LOT
of money (more than I'd care to pay).

Like the market took care of acid rain, NOx in car exhaust, DDT etc?

Those things are not subject to market pressures so you wouldn't expect
the market to "deal" with them. Not if you have any common sense, at least.

Do you actually know anything about economics?

The market is merely the result of individual self interest.

Correct.

Sometimes that self interest needs to be tempered in the
interests of everyone as a whole.

And you should be the temperer, right?

Only children expect to get what they want straight away. Society is
infantilised enough already.

You say that people travelling at short notice to the places they wish
to travel to are childish, do you?

If its simply for recreation then I'm saying people who get ****ed off because
they can't are, yes.

But they *can*, if they are prepared to pay the spot price.

I assume you exempt yourself from that.

Yup.

Right.