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The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
Essay (1829-10), “American Literature — Dr. Channing,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 50, No. 99, Art. 7More info about this quote: wist.info/hazlitt-william/1423…
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Distributed Proofreaders celebrates the completion of The Collected Works of William Hazlitt https://blog.pgdp.net/2024/02/01/the-collected-works-of-william-hazlitt/ #ebooks #essays #Hazlitt
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@ajsadauskas @barubary The fallacy was identified over 170 years ago by #economist Frédéric #Bastiat as “the parable of the broken window” in “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen”: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_on_Political_Economy/That_Which_Is_Seen,_and_That_Which_Is_Not_Seen#The_Broken_Window
Henry #Hazlitt expanded on this in his classic “#Economics in One Lesson” (1946), a fantastic and easily-digestible book that traces the long-term consequences of common economic beliefs. You can download it for free: https://fee.org/resources/economics-in-one-lesson/