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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: skinowski who wrote (8702)8/26/2009 2:54:29 PM
From: Lane32 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
It's not that Marxists can't come up with good specific ideas; they can. The problem is that their philosophy is evil - and therefore, inevitably, their outcomes.

I responded to the statement made which was "Obama is a marxist, why would anyone support anything Obama came up with?" I responded to the blatant cognitive bias. (I tend to react to blatant cognitive biases. It's one of my pet peeves.)

It is a fallacy to conclude that just because someone is a Marxist that he's incapable of anything of value. Marxists may apply Marxist principles to ideas about government social and economic systems, the result being unsupportable, but there are many things in life that are impervious to Marxist ideals. A Marxist may come up with a great new technique for removing an appendix or a killer pitch. The kind of cognitive bias in that statement shows up regularly not just with Marxists but with other disapproved classes of people such as atheists or gays or Yankee fans. It's both wrongheaded and bigoted. That was my point, my only point.

I was in no way supporting Marxism, a system IMO as bass-ackwards and dangerous as any social and economic philosophy could be. I was standing up for critical thinking.
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