I think a lot about a conversation I had years ago with an angry conservative doctor. her complaint: professors at public universities profit "massively" from royalties of academic book sales--for books she felt had been paid for by HER tax dollars I didn't know where to begin
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it's the kind of unusual gripe that shows some original thinking at least but she was *so* angry about this so-called scam I still wonder what I should have said (she is dead now)
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You can't argue with someone like that -- in part because their need to be aggrieved is what drives the anger (and in this case the literal invention of a grievance), which is not a need amenable to reason. Anger first, rational second.
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