Comments on: Tex-ternalities and the China/Europe Spectrum http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/12/texternalities.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:47:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Frank http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/12/texternalities.html/comment-page-1#comment-50951 Frank Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:41:27 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/12/tex-ternalities-and-the-chinaeurope-spectrum.html#comment-50951 Well, I don't want to say that all Texans are responsible...there are interesting issues of collective responsibility in politics generally, but we all know enough about gerrymandered districts and unpersuadability not to blame resisters for political results wrought by the rest! I also didn't mean for the post to simply mess with Texas. Rather, I think it raises some "iron cage" questions about the types of incentives and constraints the global economy creates. Might China's growth result in part from its draconian criminal justice/health policies and laissez-faire view of pollution? Have more environmentally ethical nations simply exported their pollution problem to China? Well, I don’t want to say that all Texans are responsible…there are interesting issues of collective responsibility in politics generally, but we all know enough about gerrymandered districts and unpersuadability not to blame resisters for political results wrought by the rest!

I also didn’t mean for the post to simply mess with Texas. Rather, I think it raises some “iron cage” questions about the types of incentives and constraints the global economy creates. Might China’s growth result in part from its draconian criminal justice/health policies and laissez-faire view of pollution? Have more environmentally ethical nations simply exported their pollution problem to China?

]]> By: Patrick S. O'Donnell http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/12/texternalities.html/comment-page-1#comment-50950 Patrick S. O'Donnell Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:59:25 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/12/tex-ternalities-and-the-chinaeurope-spectrum.html#comment-50950 Daniel, Have you been to California, especially the coastal areas from Cambria northward? I was raised in Irving, Texas, and although I have fond memories of childhood and friends there, I remain grateful to IBM for moving my dad and his family out to California in 1969. OK, Henry Gonzalez was from Texas, so was Barbara Jordan, and the inimitable and sorely missed Molly Ivins too, as was Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys...and Janis Joplin...and C. Wright Mills...and there was that rather vigorous Austin chapter of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society).... Still, "Californy is the place you ought to be..." Daniel,

Have you been to California, especially the coastal areas from Cambria northward? I was raised in Irving, Texas, and although I have fond memories of childhood and friends there, I remain grateful to IBM for moving my dad and his family out to California in 1969.

OK, Henry Gonzalez was from Texas, so was Barbara Jordan, and the inimitable and sorely missed Molly Ivins too, as was Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys…and Janis Joplin…and C. Wright Mills…and there was that rather vigorous Austin chapter of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)….

Still, “Californy is the place you ought to be…”

]]> By: Daniel Goldberg http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/12/texternalities.html/comment-page-1#comment-50949 Daniel Goldberg Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:19:20 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/12/tex-ternalities-and-the-chinaeurope-spectrum.html#comment-50949 Now now, Frank . . . our general agreement on most matters of law and ethics may come to a sharp disunion if I hear you bagging on Texas. To be sure, there is much to be embarrassed about, and most Texans whose judgments I tend to value agree with those sentiments. But I was born on another continent, have traveled and lived all over, and there's nowhere I'd rather be than Texas, warts and all. Now now, Frank . . . our general agreement on most matters of law and ethics may come to a sharp disunion if I hear you bagging on Texas. To be sure, there is much to be embarrassed about, and most Texans whose judgments I tend to value agree with those sentiments.

But I was born on another continent, have traveled and lived all over, and there’s nowhere I’d rather be than Texas, warts and all.

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