Barking Cat Fallacy: Difference between revisions
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What would you think of someone who said, “I would like to have a cat provided it barked”? Yet your statement that you favor a government provided it behaves as you believe desirable is precisely equivalent. The biological laws that specify the characteristics of cats are no more rigid than the political laws that specify the behavior of government agencies once they are established. The way the government behaves and the adverse consequences are not an accident, not a result of some easily corrected human mistake, but a consequence of its constitution in precisely the same way that a meow is related to the constitution of a cat. | What would you think of someone who said, “I would like to have a cat provided it barked”? Yet your statement that you favor a government provided it behaves as you believe desirable is precisely equivalent. The biological laws that specify the characteristics of cats are no more rigid than the political laws that specify the behavior of government agencies once they are established. The way the government behaves and the adverse consequences are not an accident, not a result of some easily corrected human mistake, but a consequence of its constitution in precisely the same way that a meow is related to the constitution of a cat. | ||
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[[Milton Friedman]], ''[https://www.amazon.com/Free-Choose-Personal-Statement-2008-07-10/dp/B01N07LTBE?tag=liberpedia-20 Free to choose]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=F5z1B5SwGUEC&pg=PT227&lpg=PT227&dq=milton+friedman+free+to+choose+barking+cat&source=bl&ots=SLeUunvvhO&sig=LqJ9V5JEQtFw36cA8nkblrfS5ck&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9ipbV6-rUAhWHK1AKHQAHA6EQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=milton%20friedman%20free%20to%20choose%20barking%20cat&f=false] | [[Milton Friedman]], ''[https://www.amazon.com/Free-Choose-Personal-Statement-2008-07-10/dp/B01N07LTBE?tag=liberpedia-20 Free to choose]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=F5z1B5SwGUEC&pg=PT227&lpg=PT227&dq=milton+friedman+free+to+choose+barking+cat&source=bl&ots=SLeUunvvhO&sig=LqJ9V5JEQtFw36cA8nkblrfS5ck&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9ipbV6-rUAhWHK1AKHQAHA6EQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=milton%20friedman%20free%20to%20choose%20barking%20cat&f=false] | ||
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* [http://www.ozarkia.net/bill/fallacies/index.html#Barking%20Cat Hogeye Bill’s Dictionary of Logical Fallacies: Barking Cat] | |||
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Revision as of 08:17, 9 May 2023
“ What would you think of someone who said, “I would like to have a cat provided it barked”? Yet your statement that you favor a government provided it behaves as you believe desirable is precisely equivalent. The biological laws that specify the characteristics of cats are no more rigid than the political laws that specify the behavior of government agencies once they are established. The way the government behaves and the adverse consequences are not an accident, not a result of some easily corrected human mistake, but a consequence of its constitution in precisely the same way that a meow is related to the constitution of a cat.
