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Hail, Malthus!
Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 1:51 am
by Philosophy Now
Toni Vogel Carey on how easily and dangerously poor reasoning can become accepted wisdom.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/125/Hail_Malthus
Re: Hail, Malthus!
Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 2:31 am
by wiseguy
Malthus' arguments have long bothered me for intellectual and moral reasons. Thank you for taking the time to tackle his faulty premises. While I don't know whether global warming will kill off the human race (or if it is even a real phenomenon), I do know that bad ideas have a long history of killing off the human race. So, cheers for knocking off one more bad idea!