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You are now advancing an argument that I can sink my teeth into and probably have a productive debate with you. And this deserves thoughtful responses. And I promise to give it. But I need to catch a flight right now. I'm not being fecetious. I appreciate that you've fully laid out your...

Hear, hear.

Yeah. Totally. So I guess that means you're conceding that I'm not dogmatic, then.

I said I wouldn't argue with people who impugn my integrity. I didn't mean to suggest I would vacate the board. Something which clearly is much to your chagrin. But come to think of it, I would say you've added nothing to the discussion. All you're doing is sniping and dismissing. Probably...

Really? What kind of scientist? I'm an economist. Pleased to meet you. For a scientist advancing the virtues of empiricism, you sure now how to make conclusions based on fallacious reasoning and speculative bias. You're doing Karl Popper proud. Read my previous post the 67Cup about why I'm...

You imply cultish undertones where there are no more among libertarians than any other political philosophy. Rand's Objectivist's, yes. And you also falsely attribute Objectivism as being a prevalent and popular strain of libertarianism. This is simply not true. The libertarian tradition is an...

What is my view, exactly? Also, do you even know what the word "dogmatic" means? Because if you do know what it means, and you're using it to accurately represent your thoughts, I'm starting to believe it's not possible for me to have a productive conversation with you. Ever. I think you...

Also, redroom, your opening salvo in which you make clear that no statistics or arguments on my part could ever shake you from your position, you have, in effect conceded that you have excluded the possibility your position is wrong. You have precluded that argument or debate on the point is of...

Honestly, the notion that someone would call me "dogmatic" in my views based on what I've written on this thread is just insane. What is it that I've said which is dogmatic? More importantly, what is it about the way in which you people are comporting yourselves leaves you with the self-image...

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. If you're not, then, um... wow.

http://www.thevolunteer.ca/2011/03/bleeding-heart-libertarians/

Rand is not a libertarian. And I'm not a Randian. Try again.

So, to answer your question -- and a moral philosopher would do a much better job at responding than I will -- but there are plenty of other ways in which we can arrive at these conclusions about legality and illegality without resorting to this line of reasoning. Jeremy Bentham and John...

I assure you that I'm making no attempts to colour my arguments as such. I don't want to dismiss this statement out of hand. So I'll attempt to reply to it. And I'll only reply to this topic exactly once for the purposes of this discussion. Your comment strikes me as nothing more than...

I do not doubt that desirability of areas can be affected by the preservation of historical architecture. But I believe this is an orthogonal issue. In fact, I think it's quite like David Human's is-ought problem. In fact, so is the following: I do not take for granted in my worldview that...

It has all the trappings of an echo chamber. Where dissenting views are chased away through dismissal, mockery and ad hominem attacks, if necessary.

Listen. I am tired of this. But you've forced me to respond because you're unable to resist continuing to character assassinate me. In your valiant attempt to beclown me, through making a silly attempt to associate me with Ann Coulter based on the front page of a defunct magazine, others...

I am no stranger to having the world be against me. I suspect some people may have Googled and figured out who I am. I have a long history of being a political outsider and a contrarian. I have sat in many a debates with entire rooms booing my opinions. When it comes to being alone in a debate...

I guess in your world, questioning peoples integrity as a component of their argument is fair and reasonable. And people, like myself, who react negatively to it, are just fools.

Done with this discussion Multiple posters have intimated that I'm a shill of some sort for developers. To be honest, having been accused of this multiple times in this thread, and also seeing you casually accuse Edward Glaeser, the esteemed Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in...