This discussion is wasting too much of my time now. I need to prepare myself for the electrical engineering test tomorrow. I'll try to respond to the most important points.
Gae Bolga Wrote:You might do well to wonder whether something is true, before you ask why it's trueOf course it's true. There is much more starvation in socialist countries than in capitalist countries. Countries in Africa and South America, where most of the starvation occurs today, are mostly socialist, they don't respect economic freedoms. And countries with the least amount of starving people, such as Norway, respect the economic freedoms even more than the US does.
Gae Bolga Wrote:If the goal is feeding people rather than advocating for one's preferred diet, ofc.If we are trying to feed people, producing something which is, for whatever reason, too expensive for poor people to buy, such as meat from grass-fed cows, isn't productive. And, if you are feeding those cows on a land that can support trefoils, and therefore can also support peas, it is very counter-productive.
Gae Bolga Wrote:There is no universe in which the above was the application of critical thinking, lol.OK, he is writing about something I don't know much about, so I can't evaluate his statements that are relevant in this discussion. But, the things he says about things I know enough about to evaluate his statements are false. So, why should I trust him? Isn't it much more reasonable to assume he is probably also wrong about those statements, rather than assuming he somehow got those things right?
