Comments on: Dark Green Day http://cafehayek.com/2009/09/dark-green-day.html where orders emerge Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Gil http://cafehayek.com/2009/09/dark-green-day.html/comment-page-1#comment-181129 Gil Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:14:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6396#comment-181129 T'is obvious Daniel that vidyohs is one of those extreme far-right tardos who so far to the right that all people who are far left, left of centre and those who moderately right of centre all look as though they occupy the same spot. For someone who lives on Mars, New York and London would seem to occupy the same point of blue light in the night sky and thus could be considered close together from a Martian perspective. Besides when it comes to letting criminals roam free that the realm of the Civil LIBERTARIAN. T’is obvious Daniel that vidyohs is one of those extreme far-right tardos who so far to the right that all people who are far left, left of centre and those who moderately right of centre all look as though they occupy the same spot. For someone who lives on Mars, New York and London would seem to occupy the same point of blue light in the night sky and thus could be considered close together from a Martian perspective. Besides when it comes to letting criminals roam free that the realm of the Civil LIBERTARIAN.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/09/dark-green-day.html/comment-page-1#comment-181100 Anonymous Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:44:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6396#comment-181100 Don't call me an idiot or a child. The fact that you ceaselessly resort to that kind of crap says a lot about the quality of your arguments. You associate everything terrible with leftists - in one post it was violence. Now it's wanting to control what people eat. I never made the claim that all leftists are perfect, did I? No. What I was challenging was the ridiculous assumption that Borlaug was somehow anathema to the left. Mentioning one crackpot, tyrannical leftist doesn't disprove that. To disprove that you need to demonstrate the Borlaug is anathema to leftism in general, not one leftist in particular. And that is ridiculous on it's face and you've made no effort to or progress toward proving it. But as usual, you're comfortable strutting around declaring it to be true, blathering on about Stalin when it does nothing to advance your case. Stalin may be a leftist, but Stalin is not the left. Borlaug was a good man. A wide spectrum of people rightfully recognized that. Let's not twist his epitaph into an ideological feud. Don’t call me an idiot or a child. The fact that you ceaselessly resort to that kind of crap says a lot about the quality of your arguments. You associate everything terrible with leftists – in one post it was violence. Now it’s wanting to control what people eat. I never made the claim that all leftists are perfect, did I? No. What I was challenging was the ridiculous assumption that Borlaug was somehow anathema to the left. Mentioning one crackpot, tyrannical leftist doesn’t disprove that. To disprove that you need to demonstrate the Borlaug is anathema to leftism in general, not one leftist in particular. And that is ridiculous on it’s face and you’ve made no effort to or progress toward proving it. But as usual, you’re comfortable strutting around declaring it to be true, blathering on about Stalin when it does nothing to advance your case. Stalin may be a leftist, but Stalin is not the left. Borlaug was a good man. A wide spectrum of people rightfully recognized that. Let’s not twist his epitaph into an ideological feud.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/09/dark-green-day.html/comment-page-1#comment-181095 Anonymous Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:34:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6396#comment-181095 Central planning and government over sight, only explanation. No private force could possibly do what Borlaug did. Central planning and government over sight, only explanation. No private force could possibly do what Borlaug did.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/09/dark-green-day.html/comment-page-1#comment-181093 Anonymous Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:28:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6396#comment-181093 Duplicitous Kuehn,You look at my post and decide to try and claim I am asking you to defend a soviet dictator instead of addressing my point that yes the left does use food as a weapon, the soviet dictator merely provides the example, one example. And, it responded to your silly-ass challenge.Idiot child. Duplicitous Kuehn,You look at my post and decide to try and claim I am asking you to defend a soviet dictator instead of addressing my point that yes the left does use food as a weapon, the soviet dictator merely provides the example, one example. And, it responded to your silly-ass challenge.Idiot child.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/09/dark-green-day.html/comment-page-1#comment-181083 Anonymous Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:37:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6396#comment-181083 OK, I'm coining a new phrase for a common logical fallacy: reductio ad stalinum. It's the logical fallacy of trying to talk your opponent into defending a Soviet dictator as if that had anything to do with what the hell you were initially talking about. The skillful opponent will realize this and point out he's under no obligation to defend the thoughts and actions of someone he's always been disgusted with and would never advocate. OK, I’m coining a new phrase for a common logical fallacy: reductio ad stalinum.

It’s the logical fallacy of trying to talk your opponent into defending a Soviet dictator as if that had anything to do with what the hell you were initially talking about. The skillful opponent will realize this and point out he’s under no obligation to defend the thoughts and actions of someone he’s always been disgusted with and would never advocate.

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