principles vs reality

[rudolph]

Which is why arguing with them is pointless. They're not listening.

If you tell a Zeitgeist zealot that all they're doing is restating Marxist rhetoric, they simply deny it and move on. There is no arguing with someone who will not listen. Come up with two or three obvious ways they're wrong, present those any time they post, and move on.

Anyone who will be convinced by the rhetoric isn't going to listen to the realism of an-cap anyway. If they ever come back and _ask_, then they are ready to listen.

I have a socialist friend and everytime it ends the same way, I keep getting sucked in though. I will remember to just walk away next time. What a shame...

[Syock]

Which is why arguing with them is pointless. They're not listening.

If you tell a Zeitgeist zealot that all they're doing is restating Marxist rhetoric, they simply deny it and move on. There is no arguing with someone who will not listen. Come up with two or three obvious ways they're wrong, present those any time they post, and move on.

Anyone who will be convinced by the rhetoric isn't going to listen to the realism of an-cap anyway. If they ever come back and _ask_, then they are ready to listen.

I have a socialist friend and everytime it ends the same way, I keep getting sucked in though. I will remember to just walk away next time. What a shame...

http://dailyanarchist.com/forum/index.php/topic,1451.msg10397.html#msg10397

[haxor]

Ive noticed Anarcho-Capitalist do have a lot of different answers to questions. Theres no set and written philosophy. The practitioners of the philosophy really do need to answer all the unanswered questions and come to a solid belief. Least i run into this problem when trying to so called "spread the message" and defend the philosophy in debates. I can defend capitalism all day, but th Anarchy part is a bit slippery.

[Syock]

Ive noticed Anarcho-Capitalist do have a lot of different answers to questions. Theres no set and written philosophy. The practitioners of the philosophy really do need to answer all the unanswered questions and come to a solid belief. Least i run into this problem when trying to so called "spread the message" and defend the philosophy in debates. I can defend capitalism all day, but th Anarchy part is a bit slippery.

How can you predict all possible market solutions?

[MAM]

Ive noticed Anarcho-Capitalist do have a lot of different answers to questions. Theres no set and written philosophy. The practitioners of the philosophy really do need to answer all the unanswered questions and come to a solid belief. Least i run into this problem when trying to so called "spread the message" and defend the philosophy in debates. I can defend capitalism all day, but th Anarchy part is a bit slippery.

How can you answer questions of the future? I mean Maud'Dib was prescient but not even he saw the future clearly...

And that was in a work of fiction, in reality there is more than one author to life...

[JustSayNoToStatism]

I can defend capitalism all day, but th Anarchy part is a bit slippery.

On the contrary, it's defending the state and its actions that's slippery. Like macsnafu said, give the state an inch of a reason for its existence, and it takes a mile (killing lots of people in the process).