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-4 Post author: PhilGoetz 22 August 2011 06:46PM

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Comment author: lessdazed 25 August 2011 04:53:00AM *  1 point [-]

"It's complex; therefore, you shouldn't think about it."

No.

It's complex, therefore thoughts about it should probably be complex.

Banning proximate causes of ill is usually not a proposal that respects the complexities of a situation. It's reminiscent of the war on drugs, the war on crime, the war on poverty, the war on terrorism...just about the only thing that could be a more perniciously deranging political cause than a war on a random abstract noun is a war on politics itself. That takes all the usual problems to the meta level.

Just to be clear: You favor total anarchy?

I had not expected that severe misinterpretation of what I wrote and notice my own surprise and stupidity.