Yo momma!

oh wait. I wasn't suppoosed to say that. But hey, 'you are a dumbass', now that's clever (not at all the intellectual equivalent of 'your momma!')

Icithecat, maybe you failed to get the gist of what I was saying, I wasn't disagreeing with the guy. I was saying that an eduaction in politcal science that doesn't teach critical thinking and relies on anecdotal definitions of why various socio-politcal systems are 'good' or 'bad' is a worthless education. They should give that guy a refund.

The statement thalycine described make as much sense as the statement, "capitalism is people starving in the streets while the rich are protected by their private armies," or, "socialism is the goverment holding a gun to your head while stealing your religion from your children." All of these statements are stupid. They all attempt to discredit complex systems using 'worst case scenario' anecdotes which, in fact have very little, if anything, to do with the systems they are trying to discredit.

I stand by what I said. "anarchism is someone holding a gun to your head..." is ignorant. It narrowly defines a broad range of politcal and social theory as expressly violent when it is not. I don't care if the guy has a different opinion based on, perhaps, the idea that people can't be trusted to live together peacefully without government help. I'd even agree that people in this country would starve without the government. But it seems the only thing that guy learned about Anarchism at school was from watching 'god save the queen'. Gimme a break.

Anyway, nice bikes.