Re:I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb
by lambdaphage on Saturday November 02, 2013 @05:08PM
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If you keep treating your intellectual opponents like this, you're going to get trounced the next time you run into a smart one.
To be very brief, you seem to think that libertarians believe, roughly,
(1) "the world is simple, so we should have simple rules."
Instead, you suggest:
(2) "the world is complicated, so we should have complicated rules."
But this claim is entirely unresponsive to:
(3) "the world is complicated, so we should have simple rules."
which is what most libertarians I know actually think. If you respond to (1) when your opponents are arguing for (3), you will not have productive conversations.
To be very brief, you seem to think that libertarians believe, roughly,
(1) "the world is simple, so we should have simple rules."
Instead, you suggest:
(2) "the world is complicated, so we should have complicated rules."
But this claim is entirely unresponsive to:
(3) "the world is complicated, so we should have simple rules."
which is what most libertarians I know actually think. If you respond to (1) when your opponents are arguing for (3), you will not have productive conversations.