Rex Kerr
1 min readMar 10, 2022

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It would be more convincing if you provided evidence for your statements. You did in the case of crime rates among immigrants--that's great!--but the others are just your statements.

In the case of abortion, since you're making an argument mostly on principle, I guess you don't need anything. Fetal viability is relevant (a bit old, but: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11753511/) but I guess not necessary.

But the points you make about laziness, bootstraps, and status quo all contain unsupported factual claims. (Note: turning it around and saying that there is "no credible evidence to suggest that it will create a lazy individual" does not say that the viewpoint that it will is wrong, only that it isn't demonstrated. If you don't have evidence that it doesn't, your position isn't demonstrated either. So how do you know who is wrong?)

The points are also something of caricatures--most conservatives do support some limited safety net, support public education (pure bootstrapping must reject it), and desire at least some limited changes to the status quo. But even in the caricatured form you haven't provided evidence for your position.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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