I read a really great comment in a reddit thread that helps highlight what I don't like about the way you make your cases, Renton. Your beliefs are always so crystalline and absolute. This is how it would be. That you believe things about the free market and its consequences which are obvious. That people just need to be convinced of the viability of stateless police forces and justice systems. That the state is overwhelmingly sociopathic and dolling out maximal damage to all it governs...

"One rather strong example of the whole "it's common sense" idea stands out to me from my first day as a neuroscience student. My professor got up in front of the entire class and told the class that "babies do not recognize the difference between an attractive and an unattractive face." He then asked who thought this was common sense. A significant portion of the class raised their hands, and when he asked a student why the student responded, "Duh, babies aren't sexually active. Anyone could have told you this."

The professor then switched to the next slide and pulled up a study that read something like "infants display gaze preference for faces rated as highly attractive." The whole room went totally silent and my professor told us, "Psychology seems like common sense. But this is a trap, because the right answer and the wrong answer may both seem to make logical sense. What matters is what we actually observe, not what we imagine to be the truth."

I don't care what can be argued to make logical sense. I only care what can be shown to be the case.