Comments on: An Open Letter to Sara http://cafehayek.com/2008/08/an-open-letter.html where orders emerge Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: indiana jim http://cafehayek.com/2008/08/an-open-letter.html/comment-page-1#comment-29553 indiana jim Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:08:06 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=3083#comment-29553 <p>Great job Don with one exception: Listing Obama and McCain both as if they are cut from the same whole cloth creates cognitive dissonance. I've mentioned this in another post on a different track, so it would seem that you either disagree, or maybe did not read that one. Still, you get a 99% from me.</p> Great job Don with one exception: Listing Obama and McCain both as if they are cut from the same whole cloth creates cognitive dissonance. I've mentioned this in another post on a different track, so it would seem that you either disagree, or maybe did not read that one. Still, you get a 99% from me.

]]> By: Hammer http://cafehayek.com/2008/08/an-open-letter.html/comment-page-1#comment-29552 Hammer Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:10:57 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=3083#comment-29552 <p>Per, there is a great difference between the "benefit of the doubt" and "response based on past history". The former is what you extend to someone whom you have never met, and otherwise have no knowledge of; the latter is when you see the results of a person's actions or professed plans, and then use that information in the future.</p> <p>In other words, after your politician sticks you with a hot poker while stating "It won't hurt a bit", it is silly to give him the benefit of the doubt when he says he wants to do it again, but "this time, will be different!" After a point you are just willfully being ignorant of the facts.</p> Per, there is a great difference between the "benefit of the doubt" and "response based on past history". The former is what you extend to someone whom you have never met, and otherwise have no knowledge of; the latter is when you see the results of a person's actions or professed plans, and then use that information in the future.

In other words, after your politician sticks you with a hot poker while stating "It won't hurt a bit", it is silly to give him the benefit of the doubt when he says he wants to do it again, but "this time, will be different!" After a point you are just willfully being ignorant of the facts.

]]> By: Sam Grove http://cafehayek.com/2008/08/an-open-letter.html/comment-page-1#comment-29551 Sam Grove Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:52:39 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=3083#comment-29551 <p><i>I wish people would think before they posted anything that may be wistful or positive about anarchy. It's filled only with violence. The closest thing humans ever came to anarchy was a tribal state. Every tribal state in recorded history provided a level of violence that is truly shocking and disgusting.</i></p> <p>Excuse me, but that is a misreading of history.</p> <p>The level and extent of violence perpetrated by rulers, and those who aspired to rule, exceeds by orders of magnitude, anything ever done by those who desired to live without rulers.</p> <p>It was apologists for the state who perpetrated the notion that anarchy=chaos, despite the evidence that large scale chaos is induced by the state.</p> <p>What is the state, but a formalized tribal structure.</p> I wish people would think before they posted anything that may be wistful or positive about anarchy. It's filled only with violence. The closest thing humans ever came to anarchy was a tribal state. Every tribal state in recorded history provided a level of violence that is truly shocking and disgusting.

Excuse me, but that is a misreading of history.

The level and extent of violence perpetrated by rulers, and those who aspired to rule, exceeds by orders of magnitude, anything ever done by those who desired to live without rulers.

It was apologists for the state who perpetrated the notion that anarchy=chaos, despite the evidence that large scale chaos is induced by the state.

What is the state, but a formalized tribal structure.

]]> By: jorod http://cafehayek.com/2008/08/an-open-letter.html/comment-page-1#comment-29550 jorod Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:28:42 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=3083#comment-29550 <p>Right On, Don</p> Right On, Don

]]> By: vidyohs http://cafehayek.com/2008/08/an-open-letter.html/comment-page-1#comment-29522 vidyohs Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:13:27 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=3083#comment-29522 <p>Wow! Tenure is connected to hope. A revelation!</p> <p>"When you are not tenured, you need to give people the benefit of doubt since otherwise life, without hope, would be unbearable.<br /> Posted by: Per Kurowski | Aug 30, 2008 10:43:35 AM"</p> <p>Specifically, people from the government or who aspire to government positions, as Marcus said, offer false hope...just words, empty rhetoric. What they will do is suck all hope out of everyone.</p> Wow! Tenure is connected to hope. A revelation!

"When you are not tenured, you need to give people the benefit of doubt since otherwise life, without hope, would be unbearable.
Posted by: Per Kurowski | Aug 30, 2008 10:43:35 AM"

Specifically, people from the government or who aspire to government positions, as Marcus said, offer false hope…just words, empty rhetoric. What they will do is suck all hope out of everyone.

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