I know you said your role in this debate was to be the extremist, to
push the envelope, so maybe somebody also needs to play 'conservative'
- it seems to me that "utter contempt" might be more destructive than
constructive. I have no doubt that anarcho-capitalist approaches would
be better than what we have now; but, are we really ready to call in
the disassemblers and reconstruct everything from the ground up,
according to whose "axiomatic values"? I'm afraid there's a 'small'
problem of several billion people controlling innumerable existing
resources and assets, who feel the current system is "functioning"
quite well, and who might easily misinterpret your stance for tossing
everything overboard, all at once, into Jim Legg's free-for-all
"soup".
Mark Crosby