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by gspr 1620 days ago
Of course. But the fact that the norm is that one doesn't have to worry about these things still is a huge improvement.
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Indeed, and since you already called it the norm, we need to ensure that everybody gets to live that way.
A norm does not make it a minimum baseline: a norm is something that's prevalent or average.

Not disagreeing with your desire to make that the baseline, just with the terminology :)

The word norm can mean either “prevalent” or “the desired state of things.” So I’m assuming the previous comment was engaging in a bit of wordplay.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/norm

We need to ensure how? Injecting money senselessly forever like we do in Africa, bringing war to those countries, infiltrating their governments to take them over...? These comments always perplex me.
Oh I agree with that.