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From: tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: What is "capitalism"? (Explorations of "self-interest")
Message-ID: <203@ubvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 14:14:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 14:14:49 1985
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In article <320@spar.UUCP>, baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) writes:
> > >/* flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) /  4:38 pm  Jun  9, 1985 */
> > 
> > Granted.  But I suspect that for the majority of people the following is
> > true:  I know what's best for me to a greater extent than those around me
> > who claim to.  Of course, this is just conjecture.
> >
> >					Mike Sykora
> 
> Exactly.  It is not much to argue from.

I agree.  The only reason to accept such a vague "for the majority of
people" statement is because on a particular issue others don't know better.

But on many issues others DO know better.  Baba gave an example of his
smoking heavily in the past.  There are lots of these cases, especially
as regards health.

Maybe we should call this abstract argument "I suspect that I know what's
best for me" the argument from ignorance, and add it to the list of bad
arguments that Rich Carnes is compiling.

Tony Wuersch
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