A short thought
Aug. 7th, 2008 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
If you believe in the free market, you MUST NOT allow a monopoly or a cartel to happen. If you do not regard a monopoly or cartel as the worst thing that can happen to a free market, you do not believe in free markets at all. And you will have a sweet time making sure, because businessmen, as a rule, hate competition.
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Date: 2008-08-08 03:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-08 04:02 am (UTC)I repeat: I have owned businesses, and I do not hate competition. I have known many other business owners, not one of whom had any desire to be swallowed up by a monopoly or a cartel. NOT ONE. EVER. I have yet to encounter the least scintilla of evidence to support your assertion that ‘most businessmen hate competition’. It is ridiculous and demonstrably false, and it is a GROSS insult to my intelligence (and that of every small business owner, and I ask you to remember that the overwhelming majority of businesses are small, and EVERY business was small when founded) to claim otherwise.
I am getting thoroughly fed up not only with your lies and insults, but with the smug and supercilious way in which you insist that yours is the only opinion that can possibly be supported by the facts.
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Date: 2008-08-08 04:06 am (UTC)I will not answer any substantive points from you until I have a clear signal that you have understood what I said here in this response.
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Date: 2008-08-08 04:15 am (UTC)Has it ever occurred to you that there may be a reason other than ideological blindness and plain stupidity why so many people get sick of you and cut you off from their friendship? It is precisely because you insist upon arguing with a maximum of rudeness and a near-total unwillingness to listen to any point of view but your own. I can’t remember when anyone has convinced you of a point of view that you did not hold already. I’ve changed my mind about a great many things over the years, but I have yet to see you do it once. Your only reaction to opposition is to call your opponents stupid and blind, and rule their evidence out of court without even listening to it.
I have had enough of you. This isn’t worth my time, and it isn’t worth the rise in my blood pressure. If I continue trying to answer your insults and your arrogance, I will make myself seriously ill. You are not worth that to me.
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Date: 2008-08-08 04:17 am (UTC)You tell me that I believe in A, that I must therefore agree with B, and that I am a hypocrite for doing C. Well, I do not believe in A, I see no need to agree with B, and I do not even do C and can therefore not be called a hypocrite for it.
Your statements about non-Socialists are not only insulting, they are blatant falsehoods. I am not your strawman and I resent having ridiculous caricatures of other people’s opinions fathered upon me.
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Date: 2008-08-08 04:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-08 04:48 am (UTC)YOu stick me with the straw-man "socialist" and use it to demonize me, and then have the nerve to tell me that is what I am doing? Come on, nominate any judge you like, and let a third party decide who is the aggressor and the straw-man merchant here. I do not think I am dealing with reason here.
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Date: 2008-08-08 04:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-08 04:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-08 04:46 am (UTC)You are the aggressor, here, not me. You have come to a small entry in my blog and covered it and me with invective. Answered back in kind, you have shown not the least desire to compromise. You have committed a grave intellectual sin: that of explaining my views by my supposed ideology. That is no less bad than the Marxist sin of explaining someone's views by their class interests. First, if you had bothered to read what I wrote elsewhere, you would find that I described myself as "conservative, liberal AND socialist", because I find the moral and ideological foundations of the three groupings all valid and not contradictory. You will of course never understand that, so I will not even bother to explain it to you; but take it as a fact, at least, because I am not disposed to have your own home-made caricature of what I am forced on me. Most people on LJ firmly believe, on no better evidence than you have, that I am an all-out dark-as-night conservative. If you want a word for what I am, it is independent. And leave it at that.
I have dozens of people on my f-list who disagree with me on substantial matters - even on things I do not compromise on, like abortion and euthanasia. You are evidently less able to deal with opposing opinions than
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Date: 2008-08-14 03:25 pm (UTC)