Nothing Has Changed
All of the political and media hoo-hah in Europe and the United States disguises the fact nothing has changed in correcting our deteriorating economic condition.
Europe is no closer to bailing out a Greek default and the United States is determined to plow into economic shipwreck while as we bicker over taxes for the rich.
The path to ruin lies just ahead.
Today’s show provides an extended historical boralogue starting in 1933 and examining all the legislation that brought us to the economic mess in which we find ourselves, as well as a listing of the guilty parties involved.
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) from 1992 is being implemented with a vengeance in the United States and having serious negative impacts on the economy and property ownership. Next year the U.N. is planning UNCED+20. Laura Rambeau Lee (www.right-reason.com) joins us to see what effects implementation of this conference is having on life in the U.S.
Finally, Christian parents seem to be in the habit of setting their children in front of philosophical firing squads and leaving them unprepared for the philosophical onslaught that will strike them in education. Dr. Stephen Meyer, Ph.D., from the Discovery Institute (www.discovery.org) along with Focus on the Family (www.trueu.org) have produced a new DVD series designed to instruct teens on the worldview conflicts they will encounter in college.
Fallacy of Composition _
the position that what is true of the parts must also be true of the whole, or what is true of the individual members of a group is also true of the group itself.
Examples:
Matter is made up of invisible particles. Everything is made of matter, therefore everything is invisible.
Both oxygen and hydrogen are flammable. Water is made up of both these flammable elements; therefore water will burn.
If I save money and stop spending, I’ll eventually become wealthy. Everyone can become wealthy by doing the same.
It’s fallacious to assume that what is true of the parts is the same as the whole itself. The properties or functions of the individual parts may not be indicative of the nature of the whole.
However there are exceptions to the rule. Some properties are such that if every part of a whole has the property, then the whole will display those properties.
Example of an exception:
If every piece of the puzzle is plastic, then the puzzle is made of plastic.
Understanding the properties, functionality and relationship of the individual parts to the whole is the key to spotting this fallacy.
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