The argument your link suggests is legal, not empirical. Legally speaking, there is no mandate, and acting like there is is almost surely bad for society. So I don't disagree there.
And as to the existence of exceptions, that is what makes humanities hard. Unlike physics, it is never all, it's always most, it's always shades and never direct. I use absolutist words in these discussions because it makes the points stick better, but I obviously do not mean them totally.
I think corporations maximizing profit is the default, and so writing an op-ed about how corporate greed caused something to happen seems pretty dumb to me.
Do notice that the comments about 'pain and suffering are mother nature's defaults' have very little to do with anything else you said, or with the discussion more broadly. I think these sorts of things are bad internet hygiene and promote an actively depressive state of mind. They can be memetic concepts, and should be treated with care. If you do actually feel this way about your own life, I'd encourage you to seek some kind of help. And besides, there's nothing natural about surgery...
I think the rest of what you're saying is fairly accurate, though.
Sick now, but till last year it was Mt woodson/tahquitz rock/the eastern sierra. When I lived in the bay it was pinnacles, obscurities in the Santa Cruz mountains, and lovers leap/Yosemite/etc
Which is course leads to the misnomer in the title: The integral was long solved by numeric means, more easily so with the inventions, but the proof of the solution, took a while... and as some other brilliant hacker-newsestition, pointed out, it because even easier with an ingenious u-substitution, related to the solution of the integral of 1/x discovered in the late 1930s...
( The solution is both possible, and proved, and there is a goddamned youtube video about the trick, and its not a minor trick either, like the proofs of int (sec (x)) or int (1/x ). )
In my text book, and current text books, it is said it cannot be resolved by elementary means, and it cannot, but it can be solved, and proven by one whopper of an idea.
Somehow a lot of TV seems far more subtle (or at least nuanced) to me than popular movies. The Wire or Scavengers Reign are a couple off the top of my head.
And as to the existence of exceptions, that is what makes humanities hard. Unlike physics, it is never all, it's always most, it's always shades and never direct. I use absolutist words in these discussions because it makes the points stick better, but I obviously do not mean them totally.
I think corporations maximizing profit is the default, and so writing an op-ed about how corporate greed caused something to happen seems pretty dumb to me.