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JonF
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Message 36 of 109 (102848)
04-26-2004 4:02 PM
Reply to: Message 35 by redwolf
04-26-2004 3:15 PM


What I AM claiming is that the idea of viewing your fellow man as a cosmic accident is new, and that this has allowed killing at a scale beyond anything ever previously seen prior to the 20'th century.
Gee, that's going to be difficult to make an argument for. How are you going to remove the effect of improved technology from the statistics? What analysis have you done so far? Where have you collected your statistics?

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JonF
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Message 41 of 109 (102899)
04-26-2004 7:37 PM
Reply to: Message 38 by redwolf
04-26-2004 6:40 PM


Re: Arthur Keith misrepresented... again
Redwolf: you appear to have forgottten to answer Message 36.

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JonF
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Message 45 of 109 (103027)
04-27-2004 9:31 AM
Reply to: Message 42 by redwolf
04-27-2004 12:30 AM


Re: Arthur Keith misrepresented... again
nstead of doing that, of course, they all got to reading a bunch of BS by Chuck Darwin and Fred Nietzsche, and we all know what happened.
Your bizare idea of European history has already been critiqued.
However, given the fact taht a lot of people have been killed in the 20th century, you haven't even tried to establish a connection with Darwin's work. You've just asserted one. Sorry, that doesn't cut the mustard.
You need to demonstrate that Darwin's work was the cause. To do this you have to separate out the effects of better technology, coimmunications, social development, and a whole host of other factors.
I can't conceive of a way that it could be done. If you can do it, go for it.
But claiming that Darwin caused the many deaths after he lived is a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy; for the Latin-challenged that means that just because B happened after A, that doesn't mean that A caused B.

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