If you read my suggestion that there was an excluded middle in yr statist-or-sadist straw-man as suggesting you were 'economically illiterate', I apologise. (On the other hand, mere argument from authority is not necessarily exclusive of error or nescience on the part of the arguer.)
I am not (here) attacking what I have seen of yr views so much as I was deploring the fashion in wh you chose (and choose) to express them. As to your suggestion that I 'owe' you an essay, I can only say that I will doubtless take it up when time and inclination permit: that is not a failure of promised performance under contract, you know; this is after all a hobby, not my life.
You, my lad, want to calm yourself before you turn into...
If you read my suggestion that there was an excluded middle in yr statist-or-sadist straw-man as suggesting you were 'economically illiterate', I apologise. (On the other hand, mere argument from authority is not necessarily exclusive of error or nescience on the part of the arguer.)
I am not (here) attacking what I have seen of yr views so much as I was deploring the fashion in wh you chose (and choose) to express them. As to your suggestion that I 'owe' you an essay, I can only say that I will doubtless take it up when time and inclination permit: that is not a failure of promised performance under contract, you know; this is after all a hobby, not my life.