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Welcome to Keith's night. 
Don't try it on anyone. 

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This is for those who believe 
that libertarian anarchism is a 

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ridiculous. 
Nonsensical, utopian, pipe 

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dream. 
That's never going to be 

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achieved. 
I'm curious whether or not this 

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person would say that they 
support murder or not. 

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Because I mean if you're against
murder, I mean, what do you 

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think we're going to live in a 
world without murder? 

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Well, no, you can still embrace 
the principle even without 

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knowing that all billions of 
people will never engage in it. 

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You still stayed on the 
principle that whether or not a 

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murderous world will ever be 
achieved you still are in 

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principle against acts of murder
unjustly. 

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Taking the life of another 
person. 

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Do you support slavery? 
I would ask this person. 

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Do you support forced labor? 
What you think we're going to 

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live in a world where no one in 
the world ever forces anyone to 

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do anything against their will 
you're a utopian ridiculous 

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nonsensical person who should 
not be part of Bait, well, the 

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same thing applies for rape as 
well. 

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But we're never going to live in
a world without rape. 

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So why be against rape? 
Well, the same logic applies. 

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We're never going to live in a 
world without government. 

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Okay, mr. 
Psychic, who knows what billions

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of people will do hundreds of 
years from now. 

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I'm still going to stand on the 
ground of the non-aggression 

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Principle as a way of, as the 
only morally Justified way of 

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people functioning in society, 
the same thing applies to theft.

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So how How is it that they can 
have all these principles there 

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against slavery? 
Murder, rape, theft assault. 

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But when we say, we support the 
non-aggression principle and 

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don't believe the state should 
be held to any separate 

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standards were called utopian 
ridiculous. 

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Far out, thinkers who are 
totally extreme and out of the 

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ordinary. 
When in reality to be an 

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anarchist only means that you 
believe that aggression is not 

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justified and that states 
necessarily employee aggression.

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And Therefore, that states, and 
the aggression, they necessarily

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employ are unjustified. 
It's just an ethical view, just 

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as anti murder anti-theft 
anti-rape antiassault 

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anti-slavery. 
We just take these things to 

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their logical. 
Conclusion, accordingly. 

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Anyone who is not an anarchist 
must maintain either aggression 

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is Justified or be States in 
particular minimal states. 

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Do not necessarily employee 
aggression. 

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That right one for someone says,
well, there's been no working, 

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Anarchy, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I mean, first of all, that's 

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that's sort of ridiculous in so 
far as even if there was no such

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thing as Anarchy, that had ever 
been proven to be stable in the 

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past. 
So what? 

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So what I mean, how ridiculously
conservative can you be and say,

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well, until it's proven. 
I'm not going to believe it. 

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Until it's proven. 
I'm not going to believe it. 

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Right. 
I mean, that's just ridiculous. 

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I mean, if that was the case, 
we'd still be in the caves, 

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right? 
Every single Advance, whether it

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is an Ethics, or a knowledge or 
technology, or sociology, or 

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whatever, any sort of Advance 
is, it has an untested aspect to

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it? 
I mean, this obviously is not 

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somebody who's ever had any 
exposure to our Interaction with

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Venture capitalists or all about
you, put this huge value in. 

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Then the more unproven it is, 
the more value there is 

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potentially in it. 
And so, even if a, is somebody 

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going to say, well, you can't 
show me a thing that it's sort 

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of seventeenth-century, you 
can't show me a society that has

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ever gotten rid of slavery. 
So you're getting rid of slavery

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is you should never think that 
it's a good thing, like you 

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should never assume that it's a 
good thing. 

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And so that's just not, that's 
just not, that's not true at 

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all. 
That's that's a valid approach. 

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So even if there was no such 
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the, in the sort of present 
situation as Anarchy, that was 

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stable and worked then. 
It would not be a valid 

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objection. 
However, of course there are, 

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you know, multi Hundred Year 
examples of societies that 

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existed without governments such
as Iceland and shorter periods 

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of time in Pennsylvania and so 
on and so tons of examples of 

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societies that have existed 
without a government. 

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And of course, I would say that 
this gentleman his own life in 

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his own life, he exist without a
government, but even more 

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fundamentally, there are lots of
other examples about how a lack 

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of centralized Instead of 
reading instability breeds 

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stability. 
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of price, we all know that 
socialist calculation as proven 

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by Von mises was, is an 
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You can ever have a central 
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validly allocate the prices for 
things because without a free 

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market, there's no way of 
knowing localized requirements 

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and general, consumer demand for
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Price is an enormous computer 
printout of need and desire. 

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And so the problem is socialist 
calculation, of course, is that 

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you can never get a central 
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kind of stability when you 
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planning extraordinary, losses 
starvation's lineups, hungers 

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incredible instability results. 
And so there's an example where 

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government produces vast amounts
of instability. 

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And in the free market, there is
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price, right? 
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in each individual's the 
aggregation of each Was demand 

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and of course willing to 
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with with money or two to get a 
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And we find that prices turn out
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Remarkably stable overall. 
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in the prior to the introduction
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of, and privatize control of 
currency. 

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Right? 
So, you know, a loaf of bread 

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cost about the same in 1900 as 
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course standard of living has 
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wages have like tripled. 
But, you know, there's an 

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example of an extraordinary 
amount of stability coming out 

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of a free mind, more or less, a 
free market approach to to the 

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question of price. 
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it's important to understand 
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Coercion does breed 
extraordinary stability, right? 

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So if you remember what cell 
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could barely get a signal 
without standing with like tin 

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foil. 
Wrapped around your head 

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appointing your phone directly 
at the satellite and tracking. 

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As it went past, making sure 
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and there's been no centralized 
coercion saying now, all of 

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these cell phone companies, they
have to offer. 

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All of these cross-marketing 
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that they each charge each other
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anywhere in the world, whether 
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Nobody's given them any 
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But of course, your cell phone 
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enormously since this sort of 
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So there's there's another 
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centralized coercion breeds, an 
extraordinary, kind of 

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stability, and you could sort of
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stuff, right? 
I mean that there were no 

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agencies that regulated, the 
widths of railroad tracks, yet. 

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Every railroad manufacturer On 
Any Given continent always 

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worked with the same width, 
right? 

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There was no one that said, 
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like two feet apart and it has 
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happened, right? 
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LT. 
Right. 

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No one says that everyone has to
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same way, but all isps and now 
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The handle them in the same way 
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deviating from a standard that 
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the absence of central 
regulation is far too costly. 

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The fallacy of non anticipation 
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everything worth doing or 
saying, has already been done or

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said any new idea is rejected on
the grounds that if it were any 

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good, it would already be part 
of current wisdom. 

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Proposals are rejected because 
they have not been anticipated. 

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If tobacco is really so harmful.
How come people didn't Bennett 

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years ago. 
They didn't know nowadays more 

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people live long enough to 
experience the adverse. 

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And we now have more techniques 
for measuring such things. 

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The central Assumption of the 
fallacy is unwarranted. 

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Progress is made on several 
fronts, including the scientific

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and the social new ideas are 
constantly being adopted. 

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And there is no justification 
for supposing that our ancestors

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would have found them all the 
presumption that they did 

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intrudes, irrelevant material 
into the argument. 

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Why is though the sages of old 
probably were Were we can no 

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more presume in them. 
The totality of wisdom, then we 

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can assume complete stupidity if
Breakfast Television is all that

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good. 
Why is it taking so long for it 

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to appear? 
Because we didn't realize that 

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people wanted even more Pap with
their morning milk. 

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It is not just products and 
processes which are 

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revolutionized by invention. 
The same is true of changes in 

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our living patterns. 
People didn't need these long 

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Christmas holiday years ago. 
Why should they now? 

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They probably did need them 
years ago. 

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They just couldn't afford them. 
The same fallacy would have 

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supported and no doubt did the 
continuance of child Labour in 

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mines and factories. 
The fallacy of non anticipation 

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is a great comfort to those who 
while possessing a conservative 

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disposition cannot actually 
think of any arguments against 

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the changes, which are put 
forward, mister. 

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Chairman, this proposal has been
kicked around for more than 20 

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years. 
If there were any Merit to the 

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idea at all. 
It would have been implemented 

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long before. 
Now the beauty of this is that 

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your current rejection will 
serve as extra evidence against 

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it in the future. 
Perhaps, the reasons for path 

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projection were equally 
frivolous. 

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To give added effect to the 
fallacy. 

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You can enumerate. 
Some of the Phantom Legions who 

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could have taken up the idea, 
but did not their numbers appear

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to be ranged against the idea, 
like yourself, even though they 

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might simply never have thought 
of it. 

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Are we to assume that we are 
cleverer than the thousands of 

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the very learned and competent 
people over the years who could 

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have acted on a proposal such as
this but wisely refrained from 

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doing so. 
Any more than Beethoven was 

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cleverer than the millions who 
could have written his 

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Symphonies, but did not do. 
So, you will finding fallacy 

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extraordinarily useful in 
resisting Trends towards 

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emancipation. 
After all, if there were any 

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marriage and having women and 
children participate in 

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decisions, what did not have 
been discovered long ago. 

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The same approach will help you 
to stand up against independent 

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holidays, dining out, taking 
exercise. 

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Highs or eating courgettes. 
If there were any connection 

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between drinking eight pints of 
beer a day and obesity, don't 

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you think that countless beer 
drinkers would have seen it by 

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now? 
Why should they? 

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They can't even see that toes?