[Peace-discuss] Would It Kill Us to Apologize to Iran for the Coup?

[John W.]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>wrote:

Wow, I was just stating the obvious, duh -- I didn't think I'd said anything
> that anybody could possibly disagree with!
>

You'll find, Jen, if you haven't already, that talking to a libertarian is
like talking to someone who speaks an entirely different language, and
refuses to make even the slightest attempt to learn your language.

I would go so far as to say that libertarians are as similar, in their way,
as are children/adults with Down's Syndrome.  In the case of libertarians,
they're impervious to any sort of reason that is outside of their very
formulaic world view.  They never concede a point, no matter how minor.
They're absolute masters at employing red herrings and other diversionary
rhetorical tactics.  And they never give up.  They'll argue with you until
you simply expire of exhaustion.

The one positive quality libertarians share is their thick skins.  It's
almost impossible to insult a libertarian to the point where s/he will
actively dislike you.  It may be simply because the libertarian doesn't
realize that s/he is being insulted, though in my experiments with them I've
been so blatantly insulting that I don't think that's the case.  At any
rate, we "progressives" are much thinner-skinned than libertarians.
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