I was surfing the internet for a while when I came across this interesting discussion.
It becomes interesting when the one guy switches from “end the drug war” to “end the FDA, etc”. The others jump him and they argue for a while, then the one guy starts bringing up LVMI.
Certainly is nice to see it referenced sometimes.
Comments on how it is going?
Yuck. Liberals. They are so rational and scientific though! I am getting pretty annoyed with the stock arguments; these people aren’t interested in actually researching these problems, they just spew out things they absorbed by osmosis without any real understanding of the problems involved.
“Well, we need some regulation. But this regulation stunk, it wasn’t structured properly. You have to argue against my ideal form of government while you have to take the free market and whatever pitfalls it may have straight up.”
I would imagine it is a bit annoying arguing against them.
“Well, we need some regulation. But this regulation stunk, it wasn’t structured properly. You have to argue against my ideal form of government while you have to take the free market and whatever pitfalls it may have straight up.”
I come up against that kind of reasoning a lot: “I don’t defend all kinds of governments, only the ones I like (democracy, sometimes republic), and I don’t defend the kinds I like when they do bad things, only when they do good things.”
Subject just changed. Now it is about how an ancap society will lead to CHAOS and DICTATORS and so on.
I come across that too. As if none of the bad consequences of government are part of their ideology, because they didn’t intend any of that to happen.
Wishful thinking and the nirvana fallacy strike again!