And then there's the maddening bit about, "at the center of the onion is a mystery." Those last two or three inner layers are just doozies, and the amateur theologians really don't help. Of course there's plenty of room for discussion while going through all those other layers first. You can narrow things down considerably-- such as that old chestnut, "Oh, so as a Libertarian you didn't *really* mean 'totally no government', say as in Somalia right now, you actually meant 'some place that still has a base level of law enforcement'! Now, what does 'base level' mean? For that matter, what do you mean by law 'enforcement'?"
Man, the things that hook me onto the axle can be so apparently and maddeningly trivial, makes me feel like a complete amateur.
exactly!
Date: 22 Jan 2011 07:51 pm (UTC)Of course there's plenty of room for discussion while going through all those other layers first. You can narrow things down considerably-- such as that old chestnut, "Oh, so as a Libertarian you didn't *really* mean 'totally no government', say as in Somalia right now, you actually meant 'some place that still has a base level of law enforcement'! Now, what does 'base level' mean? For that matter, what do you mean by law 'enforcement'?"
Man, the things that hook me onto the axle can be so apparently and maddeningly trivial, makes me feel like a complete amateur.