Libertarianism and Marxism
They are both philosophically rigorous.
libertarianism wins on everything except the satisfaction of our psyches.
Liberalism and conservatism have no such rigor. Conservatism is historical. Liberalism is emotional. Rawls creates a system of justice that assumes away scarcity. Hayek places limits that progressives cannot bear to face.
But its exasperating that we are able to argue rationally with Marxists despite the gravity of their failure. But cannot convert conservatives. And cannot even have rational conversations of any sort with liberals.
The only way to solve this problem is empirically and we cannot do that with the data we have today. The best we can do is prove the other side is even more ignorant than we are. And is therefore exposing us to risk by preventing us from reducing our risk, while greatly expanding it.
Source date (UTC): 2012-05-17 17:32:00 UTC
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