Calling someone who thinks that there might be an optimal number of immigrants...
less than infinity "anti-immigrant" is like calling someone who thinks there might be an optimal amount of calories consumed less than infinity "anti-eating."
"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
Good reductio ad absurdum. Mine for restrictions on ways someone can use their property: "If I can't shoot people with my gun, then I don't really own it.".
ReplyDeleteAncaps like Brock and Major.Fredom accept that expicitly. Many others do and when pressed waffle about how it's "more complicated" when that someone ia actually on you land.
DeleteI can only imagine that those people are so far down the rabbit hole that there is no chance of saving them.
DeleteOk, rob, you've exceeded your stupid quota. Bye!
ReplyDeleteSpillover http://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2014/09/potpourri-230.html#comment-941847
DeleteWhat an astonishing mischaracterization of your point.
I had warned rob about a dozen times to stop it with the "Oh, so what you are really saying is the government should regulate how many calories we eat?" kind of crap. This one was the last straw: I don't have time to correct his fanciful re-writings of my posts again and again and again.
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