Is this a self-sealing fallacy?
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The following quote is from the National Conservative philosopher Curtis Yarvin. My question involves where he leaps to his self-serving conclusions that the Left is Evil. What do you all think?
To a Carlylean, the main event is the struggle between left and right. Which is the struggle between good and evil. Which is the struggle between order and chaos. Evil is chaos; good is order. Evil is left; good is right. Evil is fiction; good is truth.
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3The only logical fallacy I see is Global Generalization: that there is an agreed-upon definition of what right and left is, and that all billion people in those groups have enough similarities that they can be classified into boxes as tight as good and bad.
Global Generalization is, in my limited understanding, the most abused logical fallacy currently being used with abandon in media and conversation.
There's no argument, it's just an unsubstantiated assertion. It's rather pathetic and childlike really.
It's really just a very opinionated piece of writing.
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Assumes that order equals good and chaos equals evil. Perhaps a better way to define good from evil, is that which is good for people and every other form of life, as opposed to that which is bad for people and every other form of life.