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If you'll look, I said "I suspect" - I did NOT give a cut-and-dried accusation, much less an assumption. A suspicion is by definition not proven even to the one that holds the suspicion...and so a suspicion cannot be accurately likened to an assumption.
You, on the other hand, in the section in parentheses, DO assume. Your assumption is accurate that I do approve of AA...but that doesn't detract from the fact that you - and not I - assumed.
Do you or don't you approve of affirmative action? You're making a huge deal out of it, so answer the question.
(Never mind that all this indignation is a handwave of the rest of what I said.)
And that's where you and I are in completely different worlds - in your world, the corporations get to decide whether they're going to cover a person's health...and in my world (and in the world of ALL the other first-world nations) it makes a lot more sense to make health care a right, so that the workforce can as a whole be healthier and better able to work for a living. Your way, sir, means that Big Business makes a better profit in the short term...whereas my way - making sure that the people don't have to choose between paying the rent or getting the health care they truly need - makes for a healthier, more capable workforce...and so makes significantly more economic sense.
Well, MY world is physical and logical reality. Things are not so just because they'd make you feel better if they were. Things you don't approve of do not stop being physical and logical reality simply because you don't approve of them.
A health insurance company is responsible only for that which is in the contract, and declining to go outside what it's responsible for is not a "denial" of anything. An employer declining to provide coverage for a specific, non-essential item is not "denial" of "health care" to anyone. This is all fact. You don't like it. Too bad. It doesn't change fact.
So, "your world" is what's termed "fantasy." It may be a comforting fantasy, but fantasy nonetheless.
And . . . I did not propose or OPpose any policy preferences one way or the other, and only spoke of physical and logical reality. You speak of "my way," yet I did not state a "way." So yeah, there's your assumption for you.
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