In response to Mr. Stromberg, the library does not contain any facts. It only contains opinions. If everything that is in the library is a fact then there should have been many environmental collapses (Erlich and Erlich, Population Bomb, 3rd floor:stacks), and at least one or two more nuclear wars ( any issue of Orbis from the 80s, 3rd floor:periodicals.) To claim that the library supports your beliefs is a fallacy (appeal to Authority.) For every so called fact that you cite , countless others could be cited in response. Furthermore, your style of argument is not persuasive because it fails to give warrant (any resemblance of your logical reasoning) to your claims.

Maybe if you wanted to make your point persuasive you would stop using ad hominem attacks. If I called Mr. Stromberg a genocidal maniac, I accomplish nothing to disprove his thesis.

The biggest problem I have with Mr. Stromberg’s argument is that in reality it is people that think like him who commit genocide, murder of children, slow death, and burning people alive. People that believe that they have the facts are the ones that commit these atrocities. Hitler believed he knew the facts about Jewish people, Stalin (an atheist) knew the facts on how to stop the Capitalists, and yes, the Christians thought they knew the facts during the inquisition.

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This is the way that I view the world, others may have just as valid points. So maybe we should all go back to the library to take another look at the facts.