Quote Originally Posted by ArchonAlarion View Post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A
Quote Originally Posted by Friedman
Einstein didn't construct his theories under order from a bureaucrat
yeah well Einstein did not do what he did out of materialistic greed, either...

Donahue's question was not even about government, but Friedman twisted it around so that he could use the fact that Einstein's work was not mandated by government as a defense of the free market and people's "greed", as if it was the free market and greed that was somehow responsible for Einstein's theories and his motivation to construct them.

i've seen many clips from that particular interview and it always kills me how dishonestly Friedman presents his arguments, how many things he says are so very subtly fallacious.