Consistency and Logic

I can coexist with people of any political beliefs as long as said beliefs are logical and consistent. I respect people who operate from a set of basic principles they can name. It’s the failure of logic that drives me nuts.

Example. Are you opposed to the state farming out its duties to private jails, military contractors, private security guards, gun carrying citizens in schools, etc? If so, then it makes zero sense for you to support the state farming out its duties to cangaroo courts constituted by private citizens who adjudicate serious violent crime on college campuses. Please note that all of the examples I gave reside in the same area of the state’s monopoly on legal violence.

Another example. Are you opposed to unpaid internships? Have you ranted and raved against using the idea that work should be enjoyable to deprive workers of compensation? Then where the fuck do you get off condemning me for running ads on my blog?

And it’s not the specific criticism of me that I find so annoying. It’s the incapacity to see the glaring contradictions in one’s position.

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