On 17-Jul-06, at 6:01 PM, Ashish Gulhati wrote:
On 17-Jul-06, at 5:30 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Your mind has snapped shut as an oyster, and no amount of
facts will budge it either way.
IMO, you're describing yourself here.
More precisely, you seem to fall for just about any flimsy excuse
offered
for why markets fail and coercive intervention by the state is the
_only_
way to accomplish whatever goal, despite the fact that most of what
sustains modern civilization was privately developed with no help
(and in many cases, active hinderance) from the coercive state.
Perhaps this is because you seem to get mired in technical details and
miss the big picture: that ingenuity unleashed in a free and competitive
market gets us new tech for living, while violence unleashed by the
state
only gets us suppression, killing, and tech for suppression and killing.
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