Re:The vanishing civility: The game of jerks, bozos and assh...
by pjc50 on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @07:10AM
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"Lunacy" more as a modality of discussion than a property of the ideas themselves. Usually involving taking the ideas as dogma and failing to think about practical application or relevance to the particular subject under discussion.
Another example: Marx wrote a lot of reasonable analysis of the mid-19th-century economic condition (and some bad analysis). Marxists tend to be tremendously irritating write-only dogmatists. It doesn't have to be that way. The right has a similar bunch of people who are Friedman dogmatists.
Here we see one problem with downvoting lunacy: some people notice it where it doesn't exist, and others fail to see it where it does.
I'm not ancap myself, but I think the movement deserves respect; for example, I've not read The Machinery of Freedom, but I've heard good things about it, and I don't think you can dismiss it as fringe lunacy.
Chemtrails, though? Obviously dumb.