Someone cast Wolven Winter on New Orleans!

[Tichy]

Unfortunately, this strawman didn't need to be invoked; he started talking all by himself.

Your logic sounds to me like this, licker: "Laws against murder don't prevent all murders, therefore we shouldn't have laws against murder."

Dang it. Snaked by Tifone.

[Xietor]

"In New Orleans is the "USA common law system" in force? Oh damn, feel almost useless. "

Actually the 49 states, except Louisiana have the common law that is derived from England. Louisiana's system of law is derived from the French, whose law was derived
from the Romans. It is called the civil law.

As we are fond of saying here in Louisiana, the Romans had an advanced system of law when the barbarians in Britain were still throwing sticks and stones at each other. Obviously one system is superior to the other.

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Originally Posted by Xietor

"In New Orleans is the "USA common law system" in force? Oh damn, feel almost useless. "

Actually the 49 states, except Louisiana have the common law that is derived from England. Louisiana's system of law is derived from the French, whose law was derived
from the Romans. It is called the civil law.

As we are fond of saying here in Louisiana, the Romans had an advanced system of law when the barbarians in Britain were still throwing sticks and stones at each other. Obviously one system is superior to the other.

Holy Crap! Louisiana is Quebec, I never knew that. No wonder it's fun there. Besides the hurricanes, I mean. Are there Louisiana separatists too?

And was there really some sort of snowball lawsuit in the news or something? I'm slightly news (and lawsuit) deprived over here.

[licker]

Originally Posted by Tichy

Unfortunately, this strawman didn't need to be invoked; he started talking all by himself.

Your logic sounds to me like this, licker: "Laws against murder don't prevent all murders, therefore we shouldn't have laws against murder."

Dang it. Snaked by Tifone.

Really?

What LAWS are we talking about? We're talking about climate change and species adapting to said changes. The point is that the climate has changed time and time again with zero input from mankind and that species have lived and died with zero input from mankind.

To be sure, I am not for more pollution, but to think that we can somehow control the climate is pure nonsense.

Should we actively try to destroy species? Certainly not.
Should we actively try to save species? Probably so.
Should we use flawed methodologies and pure speculation to justify our reactions? ...

Flamewar...

*chuckle*

You think this is a flamewar?

But yes using smallpox as a foil to GW is quite the strawman, and rather irrelevant. Or were you saying that we shouldn't have wiped out smallpox? OMG GENOCIDE!!!

See I can do it too