[Florin_Andrei]

This is what happens whenever I debate "libertarians". I mention overarching tendencies, only to get replies about fine logic minutiae. I'm guessing obsession with details, and blindness to the big picture is also a trait of Ayn Rand fans.

[tjic]

> This is what happens whenever I debate "libertarians". I mention overarching tendencies, only to get replies about fine logic minutiae.

Restated: "I hate debating smart people, because I spout over-generalized bullshit, and they call me on it".

[keeganpoppen]

yeah-- those damn details... always an annoying part of any argument. Also, I like how you imply that you can't both understand the "big picture" and care about the details. To me, it seems like the only way to understand anything. If you aren't conversant with the details of what you think, do you really understand what you're talking about?

[leot]

Perhaps an important detail, then: Thatcher's quote was actually "And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families."

... as if families, themselves, weren't each a kind of small society.