Comments on: Slaves to Bad Analogies http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/04/slaves-to-bad-analogies.html Challenging Climate Orthodoxy Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:09:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/04/slaves-to-bad-analogies.html/comment-page-1#comment-329 Anonymous Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:08:00 +0000 http://climateresistance.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/slaves-to-bad-analogies/#comment-329 History shows us that slavery actually worked against the principles of free market economic prosperity. US cotton producers could not use employed labour as it could not compete with lower cost slavery. As the limiting factor was the number of slaves available this limited the area devoted to cotton, thus limiting the quantity available and increasing the world price. Potential competitors such as Egypt applied punishing export tarifs to bring their home price up to the world price. History shows us that slavery actually worked against the principles of free market economic prosperity. US cotton producers could not use employed labour as it could not compete with lower cost slavery. As the limiting factor was the number of slaves available this limited the area devoted to cotton, thus limiting the quantity available and increasing the world price. Potential competitors such as Egypt applied punishing export tarifs to bring their home price up to the world price.

]]> By: john a. bailo http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/04/slaves-to-bad-analogies.html/comment-page-1#comment-328 john a. bailo Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:47:00 +0000 http://climateresistance.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/slaves-to-bad-analogies/#comment-328 My high school physics teacher, Richard "Duke" Whelan always said to never argue by analogy, because such an argument can always be defeated.<br/><br/>The AGWers argue <b>entirely</b> by analogy! And when they are defeted, they down shout opposition in a futile copycatting of Mao's Red Guard youth shock troops. My high school physics teacher, Richard “Duke” Whelan always said to never argue by analogy, because such an argument can always be defeated.

The AGWers argue entirely by analogy! And when they are defeted, they down shout opposition in a futile copycatting of Mao’s Red Guard youth shock troops.

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