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I was thinking more of an armed revolution

It has never worked. I hate pulling the circle logic out, but trust me here. You said you went to Hubbard, I lived in the area. I know where you're coming from. Not completely, and I'm not saying I know what it's like to be you, but I am saying I can relate. I also lived in shitty places for most of my life, and again, been to many shitty combat zones on the front lines. I know violence and I know force, and it just doesn't work. It's the flaws of the Broken Window Fallacy.

Broken Window Fallacy basically states that if you destroy something, it gets rebuild better than it was before.

If I go to a shop owners ugly window, throw a rock through it, then that shop owner is forced to replace it with a new window. Sounds good right?
Well no, the resources that went into putting in the new window was already in motion to go towards more beneficial goods and services.
If the Broken Window Fallacy actually actually true, then the places with the most violence and destruction would benefit the most, but in fact, they never benefit from destruction and violence. These people cause a traumatic domino effect that takes away freedom over time.

Of course, there are many people who have explained the Broken Window Fallacy better than I, and I tried to grab a clip off youtube, but most of the authors for those videos are pushing some agenda that spins the basic idea to prove their arguments on politicians, but they also don't get it. Because they want to destroy people through forms of media, they are contradicting their argument. This one isn't too bad.
 

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Obama is shitty president on my list because he broken his promise to stop the wars. He has caused us to go into another war. This would affect his chances for next election in 2012. I hope that we get better president to manage this mess soon.
 

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Obama is shitty president on my list because he broken his promise to stop the wars. He has caused us to go into another war. This would affect his chances for next election in 2012. I hope that we get better president to manage this mess soon.

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The broken window fallacy has to be one of the most illogical "logical" arguments I've ever heard...
 

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The broken window fallacy has to be one of the most illogical "logical" arguments I've ever heard...

Prove it wrong.

I think there are people who offer big rewards(7 digit) for the first person to prove it wrong.
 

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Prove it wrong.

I think there are people who offer big rewards(7 digit) for the first person to prove it wrong.
Couldn't care less about somebody's "reward". How much sense does it make to go around breaking something on the hope that the result afterwards will be something of higher standard? There's not much "logic" behind it if the premise is that you'll get a better result if you destroy something.

Anyone with half a brain should know better. The chances are higher that the new result will be worse than what you had anticipated, then what? To use your analogy, you said if you broke the window of a shop the owner would replace it with a better one...why because you hope he will? Do you know for a fact he will? No, you don't. Hell he may just buy some cheap replacement until he could get another window exactly like the other one was.

A logical response would not be to keep upgrading the window so people won't break it. The logical response would be to catch the hood who keeps doing it so you don't have to keep buying new ones. Whoever decides to keep replacing the window is obviously not the brightest bulb in the box.
 

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Couldn't care less about somebody's "reward". How much sense does it make to go around breaking something on the hope that the result afterwards will be something of higher standard? There's not much "logic" behind it if the premise is that you'll get a better result if you destroy something.

Anyone with half a brain should know better. The chances are higher that the new result will be worse than what you had anticipated, then what? To use your analogy, you said if you broke the window of a shop the owner would replace it with a better one...why because you hope he will? Do you know for a fact he will? No, you don't. Hell he may just buy some cheap replacement until he could get another window exactly like the other one was.

A logical response would not be to keep upgrading the window so people won't break it. The logical response would be to catch the hood who keeps doing it so you don't have to keep buying new ones. Whoever decides to keep replacing the window is obviously not the brightest bulb in the box.

Exactly, you just said what the BWF says, but in your own way. I think you misread what I originally said. Forgive me for the construction errors, I wasn't on my game at 2am, but if you read the entire post, you'll see its all there.
 

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