re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Stand Your Ground obviously applies to price negotiations!

Reminds me of the Bircher freak who was head of Lubbock Right to Life a few years ago. He and his church were also open, up-front, advocates of hoarding and price gouging during shortages and emergencies. This would ensure that scarce goods were distributed to the people who were “best prepared to make use of them and would benefit most,” ie the wealthy. He asserted that actual possession was the ultimate negotiating position and should therefore be paramount. I asked him whether a shotgun in his face might, in fact, be a superior negotiating position. He thought that was immoral.