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The Rational Argumentator A Journal for Western Man-- Issue XV-- June 16, 2003 |
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| Fashionable Fallacies (#3-9) G. Stolyarov II |
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| #3 Let us at self-dubbed pro-lifers glance. Cloning they bitterly hate, Against abortion maintain a stance. Whereas the former life does create, The latter it surely destroys. What accurate grouping this movement employs! #4 Subsidies, tariffs coming our way, Making sure Africa backward will stay. Breed us disease, but grow not our bread! We�d better be dead Than better fed. #5 Big government big tobacco pays Not to grow its crop. Big money with big tobacco stays Even when demand does stop. Do we get the bonus of second-hand smoke Absolutely for free? What truly pays for our right to choke? Taxes from you and from me. #6 Iraq with freedom does resound, The leftists say in vain, For weapons, they contend, aren�t found Of terror inhumane. Gas stores and radiation suits Discovered are each week. They evidence Saddam�s pursuits. �But they�re not arms!� the leftists speak. #7 Love is blind; so goes the lore. To reason is futile, it nags. But a princess attracts its practitioners more Than does a harlot in rags. #8 The flag destroyer commits his act In violation of prudence and tact, Because in a free country, says he, he can Symbolically trample the freedoms of Man. #9 �The people should choose their manner of rule,� The pacifists staunchly declare. �And if they should choose a dictator cruel, That is wholly their own affair. The people�s sacred right to elect Includes voting away their change to select Pursuit of their welfare and personal choice.� My, how that empowers democracy�s voice! |
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| G. Stolyarov II is a science fiction novelist, independent philosophical essayist, poet, amateur mathematician and composer, contributor to Enter Stage Right, writer for Objective Medicine, and Editor-in-Chief of The Rational Argumentator. He can be contacted at [email protected]. Receive updates from the world of Reason, Rights, and Progress. Sign up for The Rational Argumentator's FREE mailing list by clicking HERE. |
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