"'you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into'?" Don't forget that this applies to you as much as anyone else. None of the re

"'you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into'?" Don't forget that this applies to you as much as anyone else. None of the rebuttals presented by the author of the "faq" are that strong as far as I am concerned. You would say that is because I have irrational beliefs and I would say that it is because the author completely ignores (as far as I can tell) the corporatocracy that big government enables; uses empirical evidence of phenomena from a big government environment and instead of attributing these phenomena to that environment, uses them as evidence against libertarian philosophies; and in general uses arguments that aren't particularly compelling. Now the truth is probably somewhere in the middle but I think it is important for you to at least acknowledge that your dismissal of other ideas or beliefs as lies can probably be attributed to bias as much as the converse. In which case, "stigmatizing such fervent belief in comforting (to the believer at least) lies as childish. " is not a very good idea.