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In another dream on that same night, I imagined my sister sighing and wishing that every one would be pacific. I replied to her that wishing it wasn't very useful, especially emitting the wish around other pacific people from whom an obvious approbation is expected. Making the wish as a request to inimical fanatics wouldn't be useful either — yet they are precisely the ones who need to be pacified. Why don't pacifists go to the bad guys to tell them about peace? No, they go tell about it to good guys who resist the bad guys' violence with greater force. What the pacifists oppose is precisely that force that protects them from the aggressors. Yet what would bring peace is not yielding to the aggressors' violence, but precisely increasing the use of force by the defenders of peace to crush those enemies of peace once and for all. The very opposite of what the professed pacifists claim. Professed "pacifists" are enemies of peace, just like "socialists" are enemies of society, and "ecologists" are enemies of nature. Their one-sided sanctification of what they claim to defend is just a trick to avoid rational debate as they seek the political power to impose their superstitions, or rather spread these superstitions to achieve political power.

Ah, le mythe de la volonté populaire! Volonté comme si le peuple était une personne. Or, il n'y aucun mode de scrutin qui permettrait d'extraire du peuple un ensemble décisions qui ait la cohérence d'une volonté individuelle, sauf à déterminer parmi ce peuple un dictateur dont la volonté prévaudrait en toutes circonstances. La personnification du peuple est donc une mystification, qui tient du seul culte religieux.

Arnold Kling identifies what Intelligent Design means in Political Economics (Cám ơn Palⁿ). This is quite in line with what Don Boudreaux writes about Social Creationism, Social Deism, & Social Atheism. As usual, it's all about having Faith in the Godvernment.

Am I deriding all beliefs as silly? No, just like Razib, I believe. In Science. Not in fake consensus science issued by an Establishment backed with political violence. In the science that emerges out of the rationally competing views expressed on a free market.