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[–] mikenewhouse ago 

right, its the gun in the room thing. I'm not saying I don't understand what you are saying. But is it necessary to draw so many lines and distinctions between people. You seem to claim 'if everyone is consequentialist, then there will somehow be a bridge build of some kind towards implementation of ancap ideology. There really isn't any reason to believe that.

People are going to continue make awesome solutions that appeal to both 'groups' of people. These solutions will get used. Things should improve. For example, does everyone that starts using bitcoin, undermining fiat, have to buy in to Rothbard. No, obviously not.

You basically are opining that people aren't good enough at economics/risk vs. reward thinking, if only! It sounds like when a liberal democrat thinks if only everyone was as smart and good as me, but they aren't, so I am going to make their decisions. Obviously you don't get to that conclusion, but I think there is a similarity.

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[–] capitalistchemist ago 

if everyone is consequentialist

I can see how I can come off that way, given that I am writing to the anonymous readership more than the person I'm replying to I do speak like that. But I do not think everyone has to agree with me, quite the opposite. I think a system relying on group consensus is a pitifully weak system, as I said in the earlier post I support passive incentivization. So I'm not trying to get through to the marginal ancap. I'm trying to get through to the rare one that may pop up here and there who has the skills to implement something that pushes the world in that direction, to be a candle of strategic and evolutionary thinking that ignite cascades of thought and conclusions in their minds, conclusions that I have not yet come to myself.

It sounds like when a liberal democrat thinks if only everyone was as smart and good as me, but they aren't, so I am going to make their decisions.

It's better to be a planner than to be planned. There are people who design systems, and there are people who exist within them.

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[–] mikenewhouse ago 

Fair enough, that makes sense. I guess just be conscious it has the potential to be dividing.