I think the important distinction is they aren’t Rawlsian-types. Which means: infection by Rawlsianism is the problem. (This, in and of itself, is not sufficient to establish NAP Libertarianism as the One True Faith. But what I mean is that in Caplan’s case, it’s not the Libertarianism that is the problem. It’s the Academic-Rawlsianism. We fail at analysis if we identify the wrong pathogen as being the source of Caplan’s problem).

http://unqualifiedreservations.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/the-rawlsian-god-cryptocalvinism-in-action/

Caplain probabably wouldn’t see an important moral difference between a 99% Prog country with true freedom of belief and a 99% prog counry where Brown Scare SPLC inquisitorial McCarthyism persecutes dissenters to maintain Multicultist Europenance Progist/UU/Brahminite dominance.

I mean, since he’s made himself into one of the pod people:

http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/images/16539.jpg

Fun Fact/Full Disclosure: This spring I was at a meat-bod scholarly discussion that Caplan was a participant in. I maintained perfect civility towards him and everything. Is that a worse offense than #Trannygate?

From Caplan

“* Generalizing this approach would imply, for example, that there is no important moral difference between a 99% Catholic country with freedom of religion, and a 99% Catholic country where an Inquisition cruelly persecutes dissenters to maintain Catholicism’s dominance.”

Having placated/preyed on the mob with a lie, you can’t go back on that lie or they’ll turn on you. Scholar status relies on continual new ideas, yet there’s an impenetrable wall between you and sanity. The only way is forward into madness, and not the good kind.

It makes me wonder if Chomsky is an ancestor of HBD twice removed, having debunked tabula rasa empiricism in the 60’s.