I'll take a portion of the blame... Part of me refuses to allow the following:Pointedstick wrote: When a thread accumulates 15 pages of posts in one day, there's probably a problem. And I think we all know what that problem is: Kshartle. He's not taking the hints, which are becoming increasingly more direct. The rest of us are interested in having thought-provoking discussions on a variety of subjects and he's interested in single-mindedly discussing the same topic over and over again--a topic he's convinced there is one single moral right answer to, and that he's got the right answer, making him the most moral person.
1) Onlookers to read un-challenged inflationist predictions based on monetarist or Austrian errors in thinking (the ol' MR vs Austrian debate).
2) To argue discussions on government, morality and property from the premise of me being "violent" or advocating violence, and Kshartle (or whoever I'm debating) having figured out the One Moral Truth.
So I am the one that pushes a debate about rules about horses in Central Park into such a deep realm that allows these discussions to go on and on.
And I am a bit stubborn about clarifying the validity of certain premises and hashing them out, or applying historical perspective, especially if they have huge moral/functional implications for me, my investments, or society.
So I certainly think I have contributed to stretching these debates out 15 pages in a day. I just haven't done it on the premise that 1) I'm the only one that understands the One Moral Truth, and 2) most of the rest of you are violent or advocate violence while I'm sitting on a moral pedestal.
