Banning Smoking in Restaurants
and slaughtering political dissidents amounts to about the same thing, according to David Kramer.
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Yes, David Kramer is susceptible to the fallacy of "affirming the consequent" -- just because the Nazis opposed smoking doesn't mean that everyone who opposes smoking is a Nazi. X implies Y is not the same as Y implies X.
ReplyDeleteHere is another example of Kramer committing this fallacy: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/58125.html (the part where Kramer claims someone claimed Rothbard was a Marxist).