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Protracted austerity measures won't solve America's problems : Comments
By Toby O'Brien, published 30/12/2011Economic measures should be efficient and productive, but they should also be good.
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Therefore my argument disproves yours but yours doesn’t disprove mine.
At least Toby openly admitted that he believes he is incapable of knowing whether a proposition is true or not. We should admire his honesty, while we pity his confusion.
But obviously if you can’t understand the logic of a simple syllogism, you are not qualified to competently use the astronomically longer chains of reasoning involved in economic indexes, with their myriad compound complexities, variables, historical and cultural contingencies, uncertainties and unknowns.
You guys are only proving that forced redistributions cannot be justified - my argument, not yours.
If am wrong – prove it.
It is not some kind of strange coincidence that the anti-freedom camp is also the anti-rational camp. This is because “might is right” is not an ethical justification, and you guys have no other justification for your forced redistributions than that. You can’t claim that truth is relative at the same time as you insist you have a right to order everyone else around. So you’re either confused or dishonest. Which is it?
Foyle
It is a misrepresentation to claim that I have a “there is no such thing as society” view. All I have done is defend the view that voluntary relations are better – and more social - than coerced ones, and you have not addressed my arguments at all.
“comment on my view that the USA has created a vast pool bank balances”
True.