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Validity check please. --Sgeo | Talk 01:40, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)
- It's a real concept, but this article is bunk. The included "proof" is lacking, due to quite a few assumed premises. Rhobite 02:40, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)
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The zero sum fallacy is a belief that attributing a zero sum quality to all relationships that involve an exchange of resources is incorrect because some resource exchange relationships are non zero sum.
In light of the fact that the Earth is a sphere and that all life on the earth constitutes the biosphere, it is apparent that the Earth and all life on it are quantifiably finite. Additionally, the amount of solar energy that hits the surface of the Earth each day is finite.
- I've had a go at a rewrite. Some of the removed ideas could possibly be reincorporated if rephrased. Andrewa 16:16, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've restored the example from green politics that was the original motivation for this page (since its last deletion anyway). I'm not at all happy with the wording, but I think it's important to mention this as it is a common citation. Andrewa 11:48, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
--Witchboy 15:59, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The example from Green Politics seems like a total non sequitur to me. It also puts a partisan political spin on what is simply supposed to be a definition. (I know the earlier example could also imply political leaning, but it's much more general case.) The pollution part of the green politics seems to make no sense at all. Also, I cannot find a "commonly cited" example of the green politics argument.
Political affilition aside, can we have a clearer example? Something more general? This entry is simply supposed to define zer0-sum fallacy.
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