You just eviscerating an instance of a problem I see damn near every time I follow a link to mises.org, and the pattern of argument that got me to give up on ever getting value out of Ayn Rand's essays the time I gave that a shot, and you did it better than I likely could have. Thanks you, because those bug the hell out of me.

Smug-ass more-logical-than-you tone (which is itself part of the con, so you feel good when you identify with them and start to repeat their arguments, and can more easily dismiss other ideas as "emotion-driven" or whatever, so you don't slip away from the pack) while apparently hoping I won't notice the parlor tricks they pulled near the beginning where they were relying on folksy, naïve definitions of key terms, and trying to sneak poorly-justified premises past me. And it seems to work on lots of people, is the worst part. Damned charlatans.