We've all probably read this many times, but for me this is the first time I realized how incredibly suppositional the essay is. Largely it's an appeal of patho

We've all probably read this many times, but for me this is the first time I realized how incredibly suppositional the essay is. Largely it's an appeal of pathos and ethos and while I intuitively agree with its various conclusions, it'd be fascinating to see some of the more measurable suppositions (GDP v. Civil Liberties, which I'm sure exists somewhere) next to it.