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[blueerica]

Originally Posted by Alex

Then ask her to provide an example of something that requires medical care that is not a social cost. Smoking is completely irrelevant to whether it is a social cost (though not irrelevant to whether it increases the social cost).

Great point!

I really wish I could have had a chance to do that, but her incessant don't-talk-to-mes really didn't give anyone an opportunity. I'm not going to push the issue further, simply because it won't affect my grade. I have an A pretty much locked for the class (unless I really bomb a test, which is unlikely). I am deciding now whether I should email her, or put it in the review at the end of the semester. She seems like the kind of teacher who might read it.

On my drive home I considered the midterm questions further, and realized that there was a big cultural bias present. We have a number of international students in our business school, and there were a handful of questions that they may not have really 'gotten' on account of the context of their upbringing as well as her unclear wording.

I'm going to go cheer myself up by working on my powerpoint presentation on surrogacy. That group started to gel today, and I don't want to lose the momentum we gained.