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Re: The Guardian unworthy of toilet paper?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:29:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Avery Christy wrote:
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Am I correct in seeing another fallacy here, not necessarily one on Bennett’s
behalf, but more of one in general?
That being that it is instead economics that drives or motivates crime, not
race as Freakonomics seems to put forth
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Freakonomics puts forth the idea that most crime is caused by the
poverty-stricken segment of society (excluding massive corporate fraud, which is
pervasive and carried out by the wealthiest segment) and further postulates that
most of the abortions that have occurred since Roe v. Wade have prevented
additional births within that poverty-stricken segment. The argument, then, is
that the decreased crime rate correlates with the increased rate of abortion
among the poverty-stricken, which is to say that additional (ie., non-aborted)
births may have fomented the crime rate among the poverty-stricken.
Freakonomics makes no claim, as far as I’m aware, regarding the race of those in
poverty. That addendum is entirely Bennett’s.
Dave!
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| (...) The whole "race issue" is a throwaway. I think what statistic Bennnett is picking up on is that the crime rate is disproportionately greater among black people (which is fact). So if you hypothetically aborted all black babies, then yeah, (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Am I correct in seeing another fallacy here, not necessarily one on Bennett's behalf, but more of one in general? That being that it is instead economics that drives or motivates crime, not race as Freakonomics seems to put forth and that then (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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