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I don't think @banach did that.

The point of the quote was to point out that laws aren't necessarily right.

And this point you keep making about it only being a small % of the total water isn't very convincing. I'm sure you would mind if I embezzled 1/2000th of Michigan's GDP.

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> laws aren't necessarily right

And neither is the public.

We once needed a law and show of force against public demonstrators to let black children into schools.

Embezzling is a poor comparison. This is Nestle getting legal permits to pull from a well.

A better comparison would be if you invoiced Michigan for 1/2000th of their GDP and the state and local governments paid it. In that case, I'm fine with it.

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