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To: NYer
Is/ought Fallacy – An argument whose premises merely describe the way that the world is, but whose conclusion describes the way that the world ought to be. You can’t get an ‘ought’ simply from an ‘is’.

You can get an ought from an is by means of the law of identity.Once one knows the nature of an object, then by the law of identity, one will know both that it will have and that it ought to have certain characteristics and actions when confronted by specific context.If one knows the nature of man,and facts of reality, and the requirements for man's survival and life proper to a rational being, then one knows what man ought to desire if he wants to survive and live a life proper to a rational being. This is how it is possible to know that libtardism ought to be avoided as much as humanly possible.

6 posted on 01/02/2013 1:36:03 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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Slavery is evil

Taking the fruits of a human’s labor is evil

Collecivism takes the fruits of a human’s labor

Therefore, collectivism is evil

Modern Liberalism (European and North American in the 20th and 21st centuries) is a form of collectivism.

Therefore, Modern Liberalism is evil.

...Or something like that.


8 posted on 01/02/2013 1:49:21 PM PST by John Galt's cousin (WTF? We couldn't rescue four men in Benghazi? Is our military IMPOTENT? ( /s ))
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