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Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2023
The claims of these organizers of humanity raise another question which I have often asked them and which, so far as I know, they have never answered: If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?
– Frédéric Bastiat, The Law [1850]

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November 29, 2023
Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
If your doctor gets the diagnosis wrong, it is almost certain that he’s going to get the prescription wrong. If he concludes, for example, that your stomach ache is nothing more than indigestion, when the problem actually is cancer, the medicine he prescribes is probably not going to do you much good. The same holds true for diagnoses for ailments that afflict the …
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