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Tansy_Gold

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10. They lost me when they suggested capitalism

Sun Feb 5, 2012, 11:35 PM

Feb 2012

"ended mass privation."

It did nothing of the kind, and for anyone to suggest it did means they are living in a cloud cuckoo land.

I can tolerate errors of fact and even errors of logic, but only to a certain point. Even small errors will give me pause and make me wary about accepting the general premise. But when the error of fact is ginormous, I feel justified in dismissing anything and everything associated with the essay, even those parts of it that may be accurate because they are reached via faulty and untrustworthy logic.

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