The welfare state, you might say, is in that sense working all too well.

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Is there something that the kidnappers would demand that you'd say, well, absolutely not, it's too great a problem and in this out case would outweigh the benefits of saving a single life?

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There are those that say we use way too many sponges, that you can clean things just as well with half that number of sponges.

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