[Fester Chugabrew]

“Neither vision is stupid. They’re both internally coherent.

These words are not Sowell’s, but Students for Liberty’s. I may have suggested or stated otherwise.

[rlmorel]

From a "scholarly" Students for Liberty approach, I can find an avenue to accept that. (I presume the Students for Liberty don't want to label the "unconstrained" view as "stupid for the same reason Sowell didn't...you are less likely to be listened to and taken seriously in an intellectual sense if you do. Probably, in those circles, as someone calling the opposing point of view "poopy-headed".)

There are a lot of things in this world I find "stupid", but...if you immerse yourself in that hermitically sealed intellectual bubble that people like Godwin or Condorcet (the two 18th century advocates of the "unconstrained" view that Sowell often references) did, and that current day advocates of that view do, then I they would probably be internally coherent" inside that hermitically sealed intellectual bubble.

That said, it only buttresses for me the validity of the "constrained" view, because I believe it is both internally and externally coherent. The "other side" may not agree, but I believe history is on my side...)