That's a nice "high minded" view. Too bad you weren't around for the English in Shanghai or the Jews in Germany or the Cambodians in Khamer Rouge. Some of the people like Bill G, for example and Siegel and Carl Phillips that predict a black market aren't in a panic, nor am I for example, since I've already prepared. If one is already prepared there is no need for panic, but to inform others of possible outcomes rather than thinking everything will remain in the status quo isn't as 'fear mongering' as you seem to make it. Perhaps you might cite exactly who it is, of whom your smearing or "rumoring" about.... there are many who have mentioned the black market in various posts.
What??
I'm trying to see what in that post of mine seems "high minded". Or anything about "smears" at all.
You've read what I said precisely backwards
I was talking about the (understandable) inclination to discount information like the self-imposed restriction on PG sales by major chemical companies as "rumors", as there's been some discussion about whether or not they really are true, or if it would matter. That would be "the rumor that it's a rumor". My point was simply that we shouldn't be complacent, as they are apparently true, and seem to me to be real
threats.
The phrase about "panicking" was in response to a preceding post that noted that we need not panic, but that a number of specific chem companies may truly be cracking down. I was agreeing that we needn't panic, but that we oughtn't take it too lightly either.
I certainly wasn't maligning anybody at all.
You seem to have completely misread my post. I was saying that we SHOULD be aware of and inform others of possible outcomes, and that that isn't fear mongering. Not a particularly profound point, and kind of obvious, but jeez, exactly the opposite of what you seem to think I was saying.
And I don't know if there will be a thriving black market or not - I was suggesting that that option (which is one that I would hope to turn to) would be considerably more difficult to maintain if access to quality products - like high grade PG -is effectively blocked.
I honestly can't parse how you concluded that I'm ignorant of genocidal events, or how that ties in. You seem to be saying that I'm underestimating a clear danger and urging "status quo", but my point was exactly the opposite.
Maybe read it again?
(We disagree on some things, but I think we agree here, actually. We often do, in fact.)
edit: I'm still trying to figure out how this rubbed you the wrong way so intensely. Maybe the part where I say that I'm more hopeful than some. I read these threads and every link I can wade through and have for some time, and I know how dire things are. I can't keep writing letters and functioning in opposition if I don't have some hope that we can beat it. That's what that's about.
