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  • clay830@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldFinally beat cancer
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    8 months ago

    It’s a false assumption that because that is the way things are that it is the way things ought to be, and that they couldn’t be arrived any other (much less any better way).

    This is a pretty typical response to any limitations on government–“but who will build the roads?”

    There are two basic problems

    1st: Your unwritten implication is that if government does these basic things then it must necessarily assert even bigger economic control–such as higher education–which is a false deduction.

    2nd: You imply that only the government can do these things or that government does it best. Also a false deduction. Practical experience says otherwise.



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    8 months ago

    This comic is based on pretty childish thinking. Repaying student loans isn’t a cure. It’s making everyone else pay the price (either through inflation, through rising education costs, or through direct tax later).

    Second, cancer isn’t a choice–student loans are.

    More accurately would be: I’m going to be so upset if I have to suffer even a little again to help everyone else make up for their bad decisions.