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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: An AuthorTract that states we should let people ''die of starvation'' because... well, 'cause the ''environment'', man, isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: An AuthorTract that states we should let people ''die of starvation'' because... well, 'cause the ''environment'', man, isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea. The fact that the premise has, at least so far, very much ''not'' been borne out doesn't help.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: An AuthorTract that states we should let people ''die of starvation'' because... well, 'cause the ''environment'', man, isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea.
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* AuthorTract: Getting across the author's political and philosophical opinions and presenting them in a way that makes the reader believe them is more or less the point of the book.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Some of Ishmael's teachings are these, though he implies that they're just 'unfriendly' to Taker culture. For example, if people are starving, it's better to let them starve and get the population back into sustainable limits. Cruel to that particular tribe, yes, but it means future generations will be living with enough food. Increasing food production -- no matter where on Earth -- won't eliminate starvation, since the population will increase in proportion and people will continue to starve.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: In ''The Story of B'' someone asks B why, if increasing food production simply causes population rates to rise as he claims, countries like Germany have zero population growth (others such as Japan actually have ''negative'' population growth). B basically says [[{{Handwave}} "If you look into this more, you'll see I'm right"]], with no actual answer to something that refutes his entire claim.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: In ''The Story of B'' someone asks B why, if increasing food production simply causes population rates to rise as he claims, countries like Germany have zero population growth (others such as Japan actually have ''negative'' population growth). B basically says [[{{Handwave}} "If you look into this more, you'll see I'm right"]], with no actual answer then to something that refutes his entire claim.
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* AuthorTract: Getting across the author's political and philosophical opinions and presenting them in a way that makes the reader believe them is more or less the point of the book.
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Some of Ishmael's teachings are these, though he implies that they're just 'unfriendly' to Taker culture. For example, if people are starving, it's better to let them starve and get the population back into sustainable limits. Cruel to that particular tribe, yes, but it means future generations will be living with enough food. Increasing food production -- no matter where on Earth -- won't eliminate starvation, since the population will increase in proportion and people will continue to starve.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: In ''The Story of B'' someone asks B why, if increasing food production simply causes population rates to rise as he claims, countries like Germany have zero population growth (others such as Japan actually have ''negative'' population growth). B basically says [[{{Handwave}} "If you look into this more, you'll see I'm right"]], with no actual answer to something that refutes his entire claim.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Some of Ishmael's teachings are these, though he implies that they're just 'unfriendly' to Taker culture. For example, if people are starving, it's better to let them starve and get the population back into sustainable limits. Cruel to that particular tribe, yes, but it means future generations will be living with enough food. Increasing food production -- no matter where on Earth -- won't eliminate starvation, since the population will increase in proportion and people will continue to starve.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: In ''The Story of B'' someone asks B why, if increasing food production simply causes population rates to rise as he claims, countries like Germany have zero population growth (others such as Japan actually have ''negative'' population growth). B basically says [[{{Handwave}} "If you look into this more, you'll see I'm right"]], with no actual answer to something that refutes his entire claim.
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