[Matchett-PI]

"...The paulbots will follow like sheep. They are not programmed to think for themselves."

They're no different than many others, except they're LOUD sheep on steroids. :) bttt

"....One cannot simply blindly apply first principles to every situation, for this ends in a dogmatic and false absolutism.

"This is, for example, what creeps people out about Ron Paul.

"He says plenty of things -- derived from first principles embodied in the Constitution -- that make perfect sense. However, he always goes too far, in that half of what he says results from a blind application of first principles, irrespective of empirical reality.

"The same moral confusion afflicts leftists who wouldn't waterboard a known terrorist with information about an imminent attack, owing to an unthinking allegiance to the principle of "non-torture" -- which any normal person shares, up to a point, the point of suicidal insanity. ..."

HERE

[betty boop]

One cannot simply blindly apply first principles to every situation, for this ends in a dogmatic and false absolutism.... This is, for example, what creeps people out about Ron Paul. He says plenty of things — derived from first principles embodied in the Constitution — that make perfect sense. However, he always goes too far, in that half of what he says results from a blind application of first principles, irrespective of empirical reality.

Just so! Ron Paul doesn't so much think or reason; he mainly doctrinalizes. I do not believe he is in very good contact with actual Reality....

He's a really "horizontal" kind of guy.... IMHO

Thanks so much, dear Matchett-PI, for the link to another thought-provoking article from GagDad Bob!