[Tauzero]

"I don't think this country wants to be that efficient though."

Efficiency is not an objective term. Calling something efficient or inefficient is a subjective value judgement.

[balrog666]

Efficiency is not an objective term. Calling something efficient or inefficient is a subjective value judgement.

Okay by me. People make their own personal judgement on the best way to travel for their particular needs all the time. For the most part, getting into a car and driving to a train station to then go somewhere else where you will need a car when you get there is less efficient than simply driving there to begin with, whatever it's attendant delays. It's the same reason more people drive short-medium hauls rather go through the time-wasting aspects of airplane travel and car rental.

[biblewonk]

Efficiency is not an objective term. Calling something efficient or inefficient is a subjective value judgement.

Really, are all other scientific terms also subjective value judgements too. You know things like rate and speed and time and mass, those types of things. No wonder we have the theory of evolution when scientific terms are just value judgements.