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in a public forum: 'suitably low quality' said the speaker...

in a public meeting, the good samaritan, with all well meaning intentions was talking about avoiding plastic bags,  he went on to add, 'we need to replace them with some suitable low quality cloth bags'! got me thinking, why do we say such things in public?

should plastic be replaced by 'suitable low quality'? he probably meant price, but, why did he use the word 'quality' and 'price' synonymously? doesn't it represent a deep rooted problem. and why should such things be stated in a public podium? should on challenge it at that time? 

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