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Fuzzy thinking, seems a little harsh just because I do not agree with your thoughts on this matter. I suggested that you can not blanket this issue as everyone being greedy.

Say for example a farmer charges someone to camp in his field purely due to him having to repair the ground for his animals once the campers leave the field. He makes no profit from this and merely obtains a nominal amount to clear the area after the campers have used it, would you say this is greed?

Perhaps not the best representation but I think serves its purpose. It is not fuzzy thinking its having a difference of opinion ;)

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Ok I will retract the award (with apologies). But you've been misreading the thread if you think that I am "tarring everyone with the same brush" or "blanketing this issue as everyone being greedy". It really doesn't follow from the earlier part of the discussion which was about the idea of greed (read "profit seeking") in financial markets.

As it happens, your lifestyle business owner or altruistic farmer may not be seeking to maximise "profit" but he will be seeking to maximise "profit + utility" (i.e. the positive impact they get from running a lifestyle business or
donating some land). This is precisely why the word "greed" is so often misunderstood or misused.

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Good points :) and thanks for taking the award back I didn't have an acceptance speech ready :rofl:

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But I don't think it is misunderstood or misused. Except, it appears, by your good self.

Do you think "chubby" and "obese" mean the same thing?

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But technically you could say someone is chubby and in fact they have had a BMI done by their GP and they are obese. Not that I am trying to split hairs but its open to interpretation as chubby and obese can be different and one and the same

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<shakes head in despair>

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Nothing wrong with healthy debate after all there is always more than one opinion or more than one side to a coin.

Is big boned the same as chubby?

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I don't regard quibbling over the meaning of everyday words as healthy debate. It actually accomplishes the opposite. When the debate is about such matters most likely one of the debaters is psychotic.

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Being psychotic not really something I have had suggested to me before. I shall make an appointment with my GP in the morning :D:lol::):rofl:

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I hope you have private health insurance.

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I shall ask BUPA if they offer those attractive white jackets with the buckles, straight jackets I believe they are called?

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Yes, yes - any eejit knows that. Of course.

(WTF did that mean :confused:)

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That you may yet be the Mistress of the Universe.

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And/or a normal deviant.

Possibly.

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Is that what you lot call a standard deviation?