Quote from: Richy_T on March 12, 2014, 07:20:48 PM

Thing is, I run into people like you all too often. You have been provided answers (and you reject them for good or bad reasons depending on your point of view) then you run around crowing that you have not been provided answers and expect someone to spoon feed you and then you still reject those answers and the cycle continues. Worse, typically you don't actually have arguments against the answers you have been provided, you just reject them out-of-hand. It becomes tiresome.

There is much good literature out there if you care to educate yourself. Check out some Popper, Hayek etc. There is undoubtedly also much good counter-argument should you wish to properly be able to refute positions you disagree with. You might even find yourself altering your perspective. I used to be quite the socialist myself.

You say that you have dealt with "people like" me "all too often," yet if that were truly the case, one would think you would have immediate answers to these issues I've brought up, because they are so painfully obvious concerns. If you can't show me you have some understanding of what YOU want, and that you haven't thought critically about the negative aspects of your idea, why should I bother taking your word for it and waste my time reading your books? If those books didn't provide you with answers to my questions, then why do I need to read them as of right now? I'll read them after I'm convinced that it's worth my time to, and I won't be convinced until obvious counter-arguments are addressed.

I've committed myself to the pursuit of knowledge, but nobody can learn everything, and we only have so much time to do things before we die. Convince me that this is worth my limited time if you want me to read those books. You've read the books, you're passionate about them, and you think they will help me learn, so save me hours upon hours of time and sum up the parts that are relevant to my issues, if indeed those books contain any.

If you are trying to say that you have provided me real answers specifically to the issues I brought up, please quote yourself, because I am actually interested and must have missed it the first time around.