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No, unlike Bill's, my apology is sincere and as for close to Bill's, well you
know the rest..."close but no cigar".

But you know, reductio ad absurdum/nauseum as a instrument of rhetoric and
reasoning does not so much suggest analogy as to expore the inner and perhaps
hidden nature and consequences of a thing by extrapolating the inexorable or
likely consequences if given "principles", "axioms" and "concepts" are
consistently and universally applied. That is the spirit in which it is used
rather than to suggest that the nazis were holding seminars and praticums on
Walras, Pareto or even Hayek to construct marginalist calculations and general
"equilibria" schemes and orders.

But I really did like Wotjek's comments and about the  illusions of "choice".
As the new inmates came to Auschwitz they were greeted with the monstrous
grand illusion "Arbeit Macht Frei" implying the "choice" to either directly
die or survive through work. Of course the work itself was designed not only
to produce but to degrade and kill through other means. A lot of capitalism is
like that.

Enough of my analogies already--for now.

Jim Craven


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> Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa for any overreach on mym part or for
not making the extent of any analogy clear.<

you don't need to apologize as much as this! (Watch out: you'll start
sounding like Bill Clinton.)

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html

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