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K-W Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 01:13 PM
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86. Its funny you should mention logic.
So you claim earlier that all these liberals were capitalists because they support the inequality of wealth which is capitalism.

I challenge the claim that they supported inequality and the claim that inequality is capitalism.

You then argue that capitalism must lead to inequality, and therefore all supporters of capitalism support inequality.

Weeeeeee!

First off, just because capitalism must lead to inequality doesn mean that all supporters of capitalism support inequality. It might be seen as an undesired side effect.

Secondly, your proof that Liberals supported capitalism was that they supported inequality and your proof that they supported inequality is that they supported capitalism. That is a circular argument par excellance.

Liberal philosophy supports self-governance. Not governance by the wealthy. It is literally impossible for a supporter of plutocratic governance to be a liberal, at least in that respect.
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