fallacies when presented with logical arguments, it tends to be
people that keep up with politics that unreasonably hold on to such
ideas because they have invested a lot of time in pushing such ideas.
I don't know for sure but I suspect there are still old Communist in
this country that still say Stalin was a good man, that the Soviet
Union was an almost utopia under him and they still call him Uncle
Joe as they did back in the 40s., they have invested their life in
that idea and any facts that prove otherwise in their mind would make
their work and life a lie. But I think Paul is a honest, smart man
who has nothing to lose by admitting he was wrong, so he will come
around to seeing that taxes are intation of force.--- In
[email protected], "Cory Nott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The problem Paul has is that he tends toward absolutism in his
argument.
> According to him, anyone who doesn't believe in the NAP is not a
> libertarian; Paul believes in the NAP so he is libertarian;
therefore Paul
> would never argue in favor of something that isn't libertarian. So
far he's
> proven that he will engage in some spurious attacks just to prove
that he is
> right, because if he is wrong he in not, by his own definition, a
> libertarian. Most of us are smart enough to realize that we don't
have all
> the answers, that we are libertarian but sometimes fall into the
statist
> trap and that's why we have debates and discussions - to learn more
about
> liberty. Paul is arguing from a statist position, but I don't think
he will
> ever admit to it.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> Boyd, nice argument against the substance of Paul's argument. But
> that leaves the hysterical portion of his argument - the one that
all
> statists fall back on when they find themselves in a contradictory
> mass of tangled logic. "The Constitution says government can levy
> tariffs so love it or leave it." This is the second argument we have
> been having with Paul. Nothing logical about it, but it's a
> particular version of the fall back position for all (United State
of
> Americans, at least) who can't otherwise defend their assault of
> liberty.
>
>
>
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