If you're going to engage in an intelligent discussion with me (at least on my end) I do expect you'll read and pay attention to the points I make. I am indeed a rabid free trader. I am not FOR levels of free trade. My point was simply (and how often we must make things 'simple' for those on your side) that impediments to free trade are not on/off or black/white. They are degrees of evil.
If free trade is the goal then there would be no barriers whatsoever, right. So, then how can there be "degrees of evil"? Wouldn't they be "all evil, all the time" if I took your logic?
By the way, you haven't answered my question to cite anywhere that there is free trade. And since we both know that place doesn't exist, how can the global economy work? I know you think you came up with a pithy reply to answer that but, if trade restrictions that exist today are so bad, then, how is it that we have a working global economy?