The Materialistic Fallacy

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The Materialist Fallacy The Materialist Fallacy is an article written by David Brooks and it explains how America life has turn around the way of living of the people. He claimed that from 1912 to 1962 the country was in an economic crisis do to the many wars such as the world wars and the cold war. The life of the Americans in that period of time was much very familiar; families were incredibly united do to marriages and more social acceptance. Now days, Americans life style is different, they are in no more wars trying to keep peace in the world and became a prosperous country. These changes have bring negative effects on society because know the family union is not as strong as before. The article states that 40% of children are born without a marriage. Throughout this time of change many theories have appeared. The libertarian’s theory it would not work out because it doesn’t have something positive about it. They motivate people to stop working and to incentive women to have kids without a marriage. The syllogism will sound like this: If people don’t work the economy will fall, If women have a kid without marriage then there would not be united families, Therefore the economy will fall and there are not going to be united families“. This is sound argument because the two premises and the conclusions are true although they are not successful to apply they are true. Neo-conservatives claimed that the problem began when families started to break down its tradition making social trouble appear. The syllogism that may represent this scenario may be: “All families broke their traditions, Families caused social disruption, Therefore breaking family traditions led to a social disruption“ This is not a sound argument because neither both of the premises and the conclusion is true. The third theory stated that the economic crises of the monetary
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