Re: [Pen-l] Petras on Madoff

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On 12/31/08,  raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx> (again) said in part:

> Madoff victims . . . . I can't think of a group of people
> less deserving of sympathy . . . . invariably millionaires
> and presumably have at least a few hundred thousands
> safe from Madoff.  *   *   *  (As I mentioned before,
> I might be wrong and widows and orphans may indeed
> be among Madoff victims, but I have yet to see a single
> example of this.)

The N.Y. Times, W.S.J., Fox News, the Lehrer "News Hour" on PBS, N.Y. 
Magazine, the Boston Globe, and Bloomberg news, among others, have been 
compiling/publishing (and, at that, so far merely partial) lists of 
Madoff's victims which make very clear that the grudgingly made (because 
merely parenthetical) statement above is a version of the classic fallacy 
of arguing from ignorance ("I don't know and haven't seen [Thus&Such] so I 
doubt [Thus&Such] exists').

The interviews with _numerous_ administrators of charities shutting down 
and very substantially reducing their activities have been arguably 
heart-rending.

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