did you share your opinion with Frank?
At 07:21 AM 11/11/2004, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> > November 10, 2004
> >
> > The Reelection [sic] of George W. Bush
> > A Possible Bright Side?
> > By JOSHUA FRANK
> > http://www.counterpunch.org/frank11102004.html
> >
> > We are nearing the end of 2004. And if there has been one lesson that we
> > should have all learned this year it is that the U.S. electoral system
>sets
> > all challenges to the power-elite up for a horrifying defeat. Hence the
> > reason so many liberal and progressive voters deemed John Kerry our only
> > hope for defeating George W. Bush this November. Faulty logic indeed.\
>
>
>I think this article itself is an example of faulty logic aka
>rationalization. The main fallacy of rationalization is confusing possible
>with actual. Mr. Frank tells us that actual victory of Mr. Bush can have a
>possible positive, from a left's point of view, outcomes. By the same
>logic, developing pneumonia in July and being hospitalized as a result is
>not such a bad thing, after all, because otherwise the person may go on
>vacation and die in a car crash or drown in a lake. This is the crux of
>religion in its capacity of opiating the masses - basically telling people
>that whatever happens, does so for a reason. Argument like that are a sad
>testimony that human mind can be our worst enemy.
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