Apr 2, 2020

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Kill The Protesters, Or Allow Hundreds of Thousands of People To Die Of COVID-19?

When does a logical fallacy become a matter of life-and-death for hundreds of thousands of people?

Philippine police patrolling. We Americans would call it a slum. But this one isn’t so bad by local standards. (source)

A very good friend of mine sent me a link about Philippine President Duterte’s shoot-to-kill order for protesters. From a different source:

“And do not harm the health workers, the doctors … because that…

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