> But when they were on the open road, they spewed lethal quantities of toxic gas, killing people by the thousands.
I point this out because I was liking the argument until this point: He's off by a couple orders of magnitude, according to Wikipedia. Not enough for me to read it as absurd hyperbole, like calling Adam Smith a communist, but enough for me to stop reading the essay, look up his claim, and then feel like he's either misinformed or lying.
I point this out because I was liking the argument until this point: He's off by a couple orders of magnitude, according to Wikipedia. Not enough for me to read it as absurd hyperbole, like calling Adam Smith a communist, but enough for me to stop reading the essay, look up his claim, and then feel like he's either misinformed or lying.