[CPLX]

> Wouldn’t trying to make a small change in your community have more impact than all the comments posted in this thread?

No.

Some problems are rightly solved at the government level and anything that serves to distract from that is propaganda.

[bo1024]

To expand on this, there are problems solved well by competitive markets and problems that are not. If the above were in the first category people would have solved them and we wouldn’t be talking about them.

[refurb]

Nope.

Waiting for the government to step in when you could do something right now is just hypocritical.

[tyg13]

What seems more effective in bringing about change to you: trying to teach others to not exploit the system by setting an example and hoping they emulate your behavior, or changing the system so that those behaviors are prohibited?

You can lay the blame on individuals all you want, but you're just going to be attacking symptoms, not the the problem.

I'm sick of this notion that having the government "step in" is a bad thing. There is no purpose to government if not to be used to act in public's benefit.

[refurb]

I’m not blaming individuals just calling out “talk is cheap”.

Sitting comfortably behind a computer claiming someone else should fix a problem is easy. Actually doing something (no matter how small) isn’t.