Re: real-life example

[Colin Stark]

At 08:07 AM 1/28/99 -1000, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Colin Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>>Hence the concept of Direct Democracy:
>>" a SYSTEM of citizen-initiated binding referendums whereby voters can
>>directly amend, introduce and remove policies and laws"
>
>No thanks!  I saw direct democracy in action the other night on a PBS
>program about Rwanda: eight-hundred-thousand dead in one hundred days.
>
>Jay

Dear Jay

Thank you for a wonderfully concise example of:

1       unsupported assertion
2       generalization from a single example
3       overgeneralization

Colin Stark