Re: Effects of raising minimum wages in USA

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:05:28 +0200, Nospam <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Michał Gancarski wrote:

Beside the fact that it is false in purpose

No, it is not.

You guys are like kid.

Only one kid? Which one?

You never can come forward with anything better that
"No, it is not" or "Yes, it is" and this should be considered in your mind
as ultimate arguments for libertarian cause :-)

And how does one argue with a guy whose strongest "arguments" are extremely normative? "Stupid", "philosophy of greed", "false" (why? never stated). Are you stupid? No, I am not. Is this false in purpose? No, it is not. Such are the answers adjusted to the statements they answer to.

When you show me a lion from Africa, opening it wings and supersonicly fly
in Australia to defend his territory, there I agree that there are no
limits in nature :-) Until then, the sole arguments libertarians have into
a philosophical discusions are: "No, it is not." :-)

No, your sense of humour is not improving. It is not enough to put ":-)" after a sentence to make it ironic in a way it should be done. Talking about flying lions (or magic islands from one of the Matrices one can come up with) does not help either.

it doesn't make any sense in the
discusion we just had.

Contrary to a guy who argues by claiming that correlation means causation
because correlation means causation :)

I never claim "that correlation means causation". I claimed that the
existing OBSERVED corelation it is a prove that there must be some
causation involved since it is statistically improbable to see all those
corelations without ANY causation.

Even the strongest correlations provide no information about existence and/or nature of causation that may or may not be involved. So, you claimed that correlation shown is causation without valid reason. Ergo: a correlation given is a causation because a correlation given is a causation. Brilliant.

But again. Spinning the facts to be able to claim unclaimable is the only
valuable thing into libertarian ideology :-)

No, it is not. And yes, this is the best answer to pseudo arguments like this. The rhetorical trick you are trying to use here is a very simple one. For example: provide me with a proof that you are not one of those four-legged Centaurian agents with tentacles, disguised to look like a human being.


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Michał Gancarski
"If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something." Eminem
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