Re: progress on wetlands

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eubulides wrote:
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> What do you expect from a kakistocracy that considers flipping
> hamburgers manufacturing?

I'd never thought of "manufacturing" as an ethical label -- i.e. that
one judges whether an activity is manufacturing or not by making an
ethical judgment of the produce manufactured.

This could start a slippery slope leading to the conclusion that working
in a flour mill is not manufacturing because after all people could
grind their own wheat at home.

Turning a raw material [e.g. ground meat; sacks of lettuce] into a
finished and usable product, a hamburger, sounds like manufacturing to
me. It's another question whether or not it is a humanly useful product
or a destructive one.

Carrol