(June 23, 2015 at 1:40 pm)abaris Wrote: The anarchists of old would rotate in their graves over someone calling the belief in laissez faire capitalism anarchism. That guy is mistaking libertarianism for anarchism. Hardly surprising, given the usual facebook community.
Yes. Those are completely different things. If the opening post is accurately representing things, that guy literally does not know what he is saying. Just a stupid moron, nothing more.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.