Posts here have been in short supply as I have been living life and trying to get a campaign off the ground. But "11 questions to see if Libertarians are hypocrites" by R. J. Eskrow, picked up at Salon , was just so freaking lame that I spent half an hour answering them. In the end (but I'll leave it to your judgment), it is not that Libertarians or Libertarian theory looks hypocritical, but that the best that can be said for Mr. Eskrow is that he doesn't have the faintest clue what he's talking about. That's ok, because even ill-informed attacks by people like this make an important point: Libertarian ideas (as opposed to Conservative ideas, which are completely different) are making a comeback as the dynamic counterpoint to "politics as usual," and so every hack you can imagine must be dragged out to refute them. Ergo: Mr. Eskrow's 11 questions, with answers: 1. Are unions, political parties, elections, and ...
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It seems to me that your analysis misses the point altogether, so much so that you are replying to a straw man.
The post at Mid Atlantic labor isn't recommending that the economic activity generated by the oil spill be counted as part of the GDP. It's merely stating that the activity IS AS A MATTER OF FACT counted toward the GDP.
You treating a description as if it were a prescription.
To me that makes as much sense as, say, attacking someone's accurate description that prostitution is illegal in Delaware as though it were an argument that it should be illegal.
Two different critters.
You got this comment in the wrong post and I don't know how to move it, so I answered it over there.
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