re: #326 Obdicut

But Ace, that’s not an argument. I mean, it may be a correct observation, but, so what? When two people do the same thing, they can expect different reactions, based on the context in which they do that thing. That is not weird, or unfair. That is rational.

Now THIS is more interesting than CDC budgets.

Does it not depend on the thing? Two people may ask for my phone number, but in different contexts, i may react differently. The ‘thing’ in this case can’t be judged without additional external context.

Other things, and i am hypothetically including budget line items here, are robust enough that they can be judged rather independently. I find it hard to believe that a cut to a budget line item is Schrodingeresque, in that it is only evil if we look in the box and find that it was proposed by one side of the political aisle.