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  1. Jerry Marshall

    What mr.Sowell is saying is any program,grant,policy,cause,agenda that targets "you",or any other group ,sub group ,ethnic , racial , gender,age, economic standing,mental or physical challenge and including the right to choose a male or female toilet on any given day according to your gender I.D.on that particular day or the number of people in each line the shorter line may dictate the gender one may choose.Anyway ,the liberals,leftist,or Democrats have over the last 30 years or so invented solutions to non-existing problems,created stupendous problems with the solutions intended to fix the non existing problem.
    If Democrats are trying to solve the problems the created rest assured the fix will not only not fix the problem it will multiply like compound interest.Everything they've got their do gooder hands on has gone to shit along with the hapless recipients of their impossible schemes.
    One look at the welfare state an untouchable pet project of the left has destroyed the lives of millions of people that have fallen into the entitlement trap.Not only has this catastrophe not helped it has done the opposite.Let the words "welfare and entitlement reform " come up in the hallowed halls and the left will crucify the villain who dares to starve their inner city charges.

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  3. Jidori屋

    I respect Thomas Sowell tremendously, but I must disagree with his assessment of gender preference in China. This preference is prevalent throughout Asia. It’s not because boys have better survival skills. It’s a deep-rooted cultural preference to favor boys over girls because boys are perceived to carry on the family name while you “raise girls so they can marry off to other families.” I am surprised that Mr. Sowell was not aware of this cultural implication.

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  6. Wm Clark

    "Thomas Sowell as a national treasure…is an understatement. The facts drives his intellect and his intellect drives his conclusions. Conclusions brave, unvarnished pragmatic and true. In short the kind of realism that leads to real socioeconomic progress.

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  8. Warren Buffet

    This is such a bad book. Not only has he the nerve to talk about fallacies why commiting a fallacy.

    The first great philosoper who thought western thinkers about fallacies even famously disproved this fallacy.

    So if Socrates already proved his reasoning a fallacy, i wonder how an educated man can really write a book about fallacies, while commiting an elemental fallacy.

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  9. Warren Buffet

    as somebody who was forced to lose his life, he is making a fallacy.

    they dont make Transaction because they are beneficial, they are forced to.

    if you baker charges you 20 dollar for bread, and its the only food that will prevent you from starving. you make it, ofc its better than starving.

    but even that is doubtful, is a life as a slave to a baker worth living?

    or what if you buy merchandise, maybe society and advertisment forces you psychologically to buy them, but you are not benefited. in reality you are worth of, you feel bad having wasted your money, having less money and being an idiot.

    yet you keep buying crap.

    why write a book about fallacies, if your first fallacy contains a fallacy?

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  17. Erik Karlsson

    He makes some good points, he definitely is in favor of an open free market, he does miss some points on given less restrictions in any system, one must assume that everyone act in the best interest of the "whole" or community or neighborhood what have you. If not then we regress back to the 1940's and 50's when people and companies just dumped/burned or stored what ever wasn't needed on the back of their properties. I'm not a complete naysayer though, this provides a good starting point for both the left and the right parties in America. Just my two bits.

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