05-25-2016, 06:23 AM
(05-24-2016, 11:37 PM)Galen Wrote:(05-24-2016, 01:08 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(05-24-2016, 12:58 PM)Galen Wrote:Maybe so, but I am qualified to have a negative opinion of your quote!(05-24-2016, 11:18 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I wouldn't be caught dead reading Mises. I've seen enough of his quotes and enough discussion of him to know better.
You wouldn't be caught dead reading anything useful. Unless you have read any of his works you are unqualified to have an opinion about him or his work.
It is unlikely that you even understand it.
The argument that one does not accept a politically-charged idea due to mental insufficiency is one of the oldest and most obnoxious of fallacies. By this reasoning, my stupidity alone keeps me from accepting the truth (as David Irving puts it) that the Holocaust did not happen.
Oh, yes -- I don't 'get' the arguments behind child molestation, female genital mutilation, ISIS, or Stalinism, either.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.