PHIL 2003 Study Guide - Lou Gehrig, Slippery Slope, Determinism
Document Summary
Just b/c people who use pornography often have sexist attitudes doesn"t mean using the pornography causes the attitudes. Similarly, the fact that sex criminals often possess pornography doesn"t demonstrate a causal relationship. In fact, there is some evidence that the availability of pornography reduces rates or sexual assault. : complex cause (the author is greatly oversimplifying the cause of starvation. There is plenty of evidence to show that the world is perfectly capable of producing enough food to feed the world"s population. So the author is really being very selective in the evidence he gives weight to. But it oversimplifies things to assume that it is going to the private school as such that makes the difference. It is the fact that going to a private school tends to give you a better education that makes the difference. They are not constructed to give money after someone has been playing them a long time, otherwise the simplistic strategy described would work.
