tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353680062320179256.post877632748817974430..comments2023-12-29T17:12:14.653-08:00Comments on Shaving Leviathan: Randal Paul, Libertarianism, and UtopianismJeffrey Perrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11841019772535869442noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353680062320179256.post-24597171179532579172010-05-28T08:09:12.661-07:002010-05-28T08:09:12.661-07:00Very astute, Ken. But you're overlooking the &...Very astute, Ken. But you're overlooking the 'fact' that we're not talking about mere mortals here. Our wannabe overlords are just wiser, smarter, and infinitely purer than the rest of us you know. <br /><br />Maybe you could have surgery for that forehead.<br /><br />:)<br /><br />JeffJeffrey Perrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11841019772535869442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353680062320179256.post-41288587006828497762010-05-27T11:30:30.556-07:002010-05-27T11:30:30.556-07:00It recently occurred to me (if you want to say the...It recently occurred to me (if you want to say the thought is late in occurring to me, due to the angle of my forehead, I don't reckon I could argue, partly because I wouldn't understand your big words) that the "utopian" argument used against liberty is self-refuting. <br /><br />Basically, even the relatively more thoughtful form of the argument (the stoopid form is "Whadda you got against the fire department?") goes like this: "Not everyone is a rational utility maximizer all the time" (or not everyone is as wise and upright or the Founders, or whatever flavor is being peddled at a given time).<br /><br />Okay, fine, granted. So the answer, then, is to turn the monopoly of aggressive force over to....whom? People who aren't always rational utility maximizers, or who aren't as wise and upright as the Founders, or whatever flavor is being peddled?<br /><br />As I asked elsewhere, are you seriously arguing that because someone (or some group of someones every bit as fallible and benighted as thee and me, or at least me) gave a guy a badge, a flag, and a seal (Great Seal of the United States, Good Housekeeping Seal, Nabisco Seal, whatever), he's one of G-d's gorram anointed?Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780425923108876647noreply@blogger.com