On 12/31/08, raghu <[email protected]> (again) said in part:
> Madoff victims . . . . I can't think of a group of people
> less deserving of sympathy . . . . invariably millionaires
> and presumably have at least a few hundred thousands
> safe from Madoff. * * * (As I mentioned before,
> I might be wrong and widows and orphans may indeed
> be among Madoff victims, but I have yet to see a single
> example of this.)
The N.Y. Times, W.S.J., Fox News, the Lehrer "News Hour" on PBS, N.Y.
Magazine, the Boston Globe, and Bloomberg news, among others, have been
compiling/publishing (and, at that, so far merely partial) lists of
Madoff's victims which make very clear that the grudgingly made (because
merely parenthetical) statement above is a version of the classic fallacy
of arguing from ignorance ("I don't know and haven't seen [Thus&Such] so I
doubt [Thus&Such] exists').
The interviews with _numerous_ administrators of charities shutting down
and very substantially reducing their activities have been arguably
heart-rending.
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