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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: KLP who wrote (35563)5/21/2009 7:48:23 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) of 71588
 
Re: "Six generations from a former slave to the present is outlandish. That would tell me the people involved have no faith in themselves, and only want to be a part of a greater slavery...."

No offense, guy... but that strikes me as an incredibly stupid comment.

Putting aside (for now) the well-know statistical fallacy that is trying to generalize from an aggregate statistic down to any single individual, (always statistically invalid), and which makes the quote above statistically fallacious... let's just try that quote out by running it in reverse, imaging that you are talking about some other 'group' across time.

Imagine that there is SOME PRESENT DAY DESCENDANT somewhere of European Royalty (a Cromwell, a James, a King of France or of Prussia or something) who is RIGHT NOW a drunkard and a spendthrift, living in squalor somewhere around the globe... surely there must be PLENTY of such right? Degenerate gamblers, drug addicts, insurance and used car salesmen.... :-)

Now... does this simple fact tell you that "the people involved have no faith in themselves, and only want to be a part of a greater slavery...." because they went from Kings to drunkery and paupers????????????????

Of course not!
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