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StatistFallacies/OppressedByNature

Fallacy:

Marten van Loon: Starving people to death of also a form of force.

Response:

If a person actually confined someone against their will and allowed them to starve that would be aggression against them; but the error is typically to blame the boogeyman at hand (capitalists, big business, voluntaryists) for someone not getting the resources they want or need and suffering from it.

However, it is not aggression to refuse to donate to someone, or even to refuse to contract with them on their terms, or to refuse to associate with them.

If someone comes to harm from not meeting biological needs, it is nonsensical to say "capitalism" or "big business" or whatever their chosen villain is "oppressed" them. If anything, "nature" oppressed them, but that makes little sense when brought out into the open.

An example blaming voluntaryists and capitalism:

http://photo.i4031.net:81/v/Oppressive nature.jpg

Oppressed by nature:

http://photo.i4031.net:81/v/Oppressed by nature.jpg

(DBR)

See also:

* Exploitation