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I won't even try to explain the fallacy here, except to say that a) It consists of assuming that kin selection would make altruism proportional to overall genetic relatedness--that is, the percentage of all your genes that you have in common with another organism; and b) This assumption has been memorably characterized as implying that humans should, in theory, be "nicer to mosquitos than to marigolds."
All this might not matter, if the small-business fallacy were not used by its promoters as justification for carving exemptions and preferences for small business into virtually every piece of economic legislation that passes Congress.
Of course, we don't want to get caught up in the intentional fallacy, and a work of art of strength should be open to a variety of interpretations, but I think there's a danger of missing the plot (and incidentally patronizing African culture) if we deny Ofili's Madonna its subversiveness, iconoclasm, and sheer naughtiness.
Full-disclosure paragraph: The article in which the "National Review fallacy" appeared was a review of my book, The Moral Animal . One of the review's major complaints was about my alleged failure to realize that Darwinism is a thoroughgoing vindication of the reviewer's various political beliefs (e.g.
But you don't have to be a trained statistician to spot the fallacy at its heart, which is, to quote Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistician John Karon, that "you're only getting the ages of those who die."