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To: Lane3 who wrote (5546)	1/10/2017 2:55:19 PM
From: neolib	1 Recommendation Recommended By Ron Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356722

Tim's point is the standard Libertarian point in any argument: I won't believe what I don't want to believe. Libertarians are wedded to the ideological concept that THERE CANNOT BE ANY RIGHT ANSWERS TO ANY QUESTION. If they concede there are correct answers, then that leaves the door open to a collective response, and that is anathema to a Libertarian. So on any issue there must always be doubt as to the cause and effect, so that there can be no collective consensus on a solution. The "marketplace of ideas" is the TRUE repository of knowledge, and its best to keep the marketplace as corrupted as possible with nonsense like fake news, or Libertarian arguments that elite scientists are corrupt and not to be trusted etc. In the marketplace any idiots views are a valid as the best science on the subject. Therefore smoking doesn't cause cancer, guns don't contribute to violence, humans burning fossil fuels aren't causing the climate to warm up, socialized medicine can't work, the earth is only 6K y/o and evolution is a hoax ready to collapse due to the huge weight of evidence against, etc, etc.