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Originally Posted by filtherton
You are of course free to think whatever you want. However, most schools of thought get more accurate in their ability to describe reality (provided that is their goal) as time moves on. It isn't a total crapshoot.
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What makes you say 'most'?
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Speaking of absolutes, you seemed pretty absolute in your claim that the relative up to datedness of a person with respect to their particular field was a silly metric. You're wrong.
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Speaking of absolutes, you don't think it can be? I thought you at least admitted the existence of rare exceptions. I, for one, wasn't up to date with certain schools of thought concerning civil liberties during the Bush administration.
"Total crapshoot" doesn't imply the lack of validation. It's not an absolute. It implies that you can't reliably count on validation. And unless you want to get circular, you can't.
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Especially when the subject with which someone is out of date is economics, a field which seems to be much better at hindsight than foresight.
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That's not even really true, though, considering (for instance) the divide concerning the New Deal. But I'm sure this board considers that debate wholly settled.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
that the aclu is somehow racist first
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Never said. Read before you jab.
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secondly that the way in which such logic as there is behind the first statement operates, this "racism" is somehow like that which guyy imputed to ron paul.
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Guyy didn't specify what kind of racism. Currently, it's very much 'somehow' like that which guyy imputed to ron paul
's allies (not reading his posts either?).
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you should be grateful that someone opted for 2
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I'd be a bit more grateful if you had done a decent job of it. A bit.