What standard are you using to judge whether they’re correct or not? I disagree with most of your answers. I’m guessing that if I pressed you enough, you’d wind up answering “the gate keepers (especially the ones at universities) are more-or-less doing a good job, I know this because they told me so”.
I pause to add to a different comment of mine from elsewhere in this thread, where I stated that right-wing libertarians are over-represented. I happen to think that this is a good thing, even if I think that right-wing libertarian ideology is wrong, and if consistently implemented, morally awful.
At the university level, at least, they tend to be much more interesting to talk to than people who agree with me. They also provide an excellent service: if you want to know what’s wrong with particular government policies you’ve never heard of, libertarians will happily assist you.
What standard are you using to judge whether they’re correct or not?
Several. Here’s an example: do they tend to promote true ideas over false ones, even on politicized topics? Yes. It makes a lot of movement conservatives and radical environmentalists angry, but they do. This is anecdotal, but I have an easier time finding people willing to listen to my unpopular ideas amongst students and faculty than I do with my neighbors.
I’m guessing that pressed you enough, you’d wind up answering “the gate keepers (especially the ones at universities) are more-or-less doing a good job, I know this because they told me so”.
And you’d be guessing incorrectly. See the previous response. I suppose you’re working on the response to a previous comment of mine wherein I asked you to describe what you think the political atmosphere at universities to be like. I will also refer back to my first comment, wherein I asked whether or not intellectual diversity has been improving or not—I think it has been.
What standard are you using to judge whether they’re correct or not? I disagree with most of your answers. I’m guessing that if I pressed you enough, you’d wind up answering “the gate keepers (especially the ones at universities) are more-or-less doing a good job, I know this because they told me so”.
I pause to add to a different comment of mine from elsewhere in this thread, where I stated that right-wing libertarians are over-represented. I happen to think that this is a good thing, even if I think that right-wing libertarian ideology is wrong, and if consistently implemented, morally awful.
At the university level, at least, they tend to be much more interesting to talk to than people who agree with me. They also provide an excellent service: if you want to know what’s wrong with particular government policies you’ve never heard of, libertarians will happily assist you.
This may be true in economic departments, this is most definitely not true in universities in general.
Several. Here’s an example: do they tend to promote true ideas over false ones, even on politicized topics? Yes. It makes a lot of movement conservatives and radical environmentalists angry, but they do. This is anecdotal, but I have an easier time finding people willing to listen to my unpopular ideas amongst students and faculty than I do with my neighbors.
And you’d be guessing incorrectly. See the previous response. I suppose you’re working on the response to a previous comment of mine wherein I asked you to describe what you think the political atmosphere at universities to be like. I will also refer back to my first comment, wherein I asked whether or not intellectual diversity has been improving or not—I think it has been.
This is what is known as circular reasoning.