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Can you see my eyes rolling in their sockets? No one suggested any of the stuff in the caricature you draw there.

• sp332 13y ago
  User cylinder claimed that peer-to-peer aid cannot make a meaningful impact on society.
  • chc 13y ago
    I don't believe he actually said that. I believe what he actually said was that there exist programs of giving which can only be effective when practiced on a large scale.
    • sp332 13y ago
      In order to make a meaningful impact on society, you need mandated programs The contrapositive (logically equivalent) statement is: If you don't have mandated programs, you can't make a meaningful impact on society.
      • chc 13y ago
        Taken in context, his statement does not appear to me to be a universal positive claim, so inverting it to a universal negative seems unfair. His point appears to be that this particular idea as well as some others are such that they cannot be effective when the scale is too small.