RE: Anarchist idiots
June 23, 2015 at 9:34 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2015 at 10:01 pm by Pyrrho.)
(June 23, 2015 at 8:13 pm)TaraJo Wrote:(June 23, 2015 at 5:14 pm)abaris Wrote: I would call them Utopists. One can always hope that human nature allows for peaceful interactions. Is it realistic? No. But a dreamer isn't automatically an idiot.
Even that isn't entirely true. The anarcho-capitalists don't think human nature will lead to peaceful interactions; they're the ones who believe that the free market will cure all social ills. They tend to sound a lot like the religious nuts, only they worship the free market as some kind of invisible, omni-benevolent diety that will bring happiness to all who accept it. As for me, I can't imagine a world more distopian than one where you have to buy police service or courts. I mean, the super wealthy already get away with a lot now, but if social institutions like that were literally their employees, I can't see them ever being held accountable for anything.
I suppose this all depends on what type of anarchism you believe in. They all claim their brand of anarcho-_____ is the only "real" anarchism.
Okay, so they are really stupid "free market" or "laissez-faire" capitalists rather than anarchists. But they are also too stupid to know what these words mean, which also means that they are not smart enough to look them up in a dictionary. That is not surprising for anyone stupid enough to be that type of capitalist.
Your description also reminds me of the idiot worshipers of Ayn Rand. They are religious nuts.
Regardless, you waste your time with idiots. That is the takeaway from this. You might want to start conversing with a better class of people.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
