Argentina: Significant Damage To Freedom – OpEd |
The opposite path led Javier Milei – and will continue to lead – to goals opposed to economic and social freedom, since they are indivisible. It is pure logic, but its defenders argue that all its contradictions are circumstantial and that they would be carried out in order to become “the freest country in the world”. An argument that violates all the laws of science, ergo, they achieve the opposite effect.
And corrections in the future seem impossible so that, in the best of cases, Argentina will have a mediocre course. In the first place, because they demonstrate a strong intellectual weakness since they believe that there are circumstances and critical moments that make the laws of nature – the freedom for them to develop – ineffective and must be violated. Second, absolute ignorance of the laws of logic in favor of voluntarism: when the ego surpasses the ability to reason.
The first four principles of Logic are that of identity (being is what it is, Parmenides of Elea would say), that of non-contradiction, that of the excluded third and that of sufficient reason. The principle of the excluded third (tertium non datur) says that a proposition is either true or false, without there being a third option or an intermediate possibility. The principle of reason explains that every entity or proposition that exists or is true must have a reason, explanation or sufficient foundation for its existence, that is, nothing happens or is “just because”; there is always a why, a cause or a reason that determines it.
In his first year in office, GDP fell 1.7%, according to official data. Of course, like any politician, he blamed the previous government when the reality is that it fell because of the sharp increase in taxes, that is, fewer resources in the hands of the productive sector. Not only did it increase some directly, but it also produced a strong hidden increase by........