05-25-2016, 12:53 PM
(05-25-2016, 06:23 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(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.
Eric the Obtuse has given more than enough evidence of mental insufficiency to conclude that he doesn't understand the Mises quote and its implications.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises