Re:Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling
by philh on Thursday September 25, 2014 @11:47AM
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Okay, thanks.
The broken window just doesn't strike me as a central part of the broken window fallacy. To me, the important part is that people see the glazier getting money in exchange for a service, and think that economics is happening and this is a good thing; but they don't see that if the glazier didn't get that money, the bookseller would.
So I'd say that yeah, zizee is committing the broken window fallacy, even if the broken window itself has no analogous component in vis reasoning.
(But I'm not going to argue about it if you continue to disagree. That would be a profoundly boring argument.)
The broken window just doesn't strike me as a central part of the broken window fallacy. To me, the important part is that people see the glazier getting money in exchange for a service, and think that economics is happening and this is a good thing; but they don't see that if the glazier didn't get that money, the bookseller would.
So I'd say that yeah, zizee is committing the broken window fallacy, even if the broken window itself has no analogous component in vis reasoning.
(But I'm not going to argue about it if you continue to disagree. That would be a profoundly boring argument.)