- 18 Feb 2014 20:49
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I have noticed several similarities between the movements of Young Earth Creationism and of Anarcho-Capitalism. It seems like there are similar sort of social and mental forces driving both. I find it fascinating.
- Both are some of the most driven groups in pushing their beliefs in respective fields. They find it imperative to have as many people as possible accept their views, to the point of the preaching becoming an obsession.
- Both are small groups with beliefs far outside of scientific consensus.
- Both believe in a scientific conspiracy of professors. In one case it's "darwinists", in the other it's "statists", united against the truth.
- Both try to make their views popular mostly through appeals to the public rather than publishing research papers in the relevant fields.
- Both believe there is much wider support of their views but it is suppressed. In one case people supposedly don't truly deep-down believe they are descended from apes, in the other case they don't truly support statist aggression.
- Both simplify the field to a single overreaching rule: it must be so because God said so / it must be so because it's what the Non-Aggression Principle dictates.
- Both appeal to morality supporting their biology/physics and economics views. Whatever the Bible / NAP implies is also ultimately best / economically optimal.
- Both strongly attach themselves personally to these views. Anything that disagrees is an attack and a matter of honor.
- Both have a pre-determined answer and look at arguments and evidence specifically with the aim of supporting that previously decided on answer or finding a counter-argument to what the enemy claims. Friendly results are met with easy approval, unfriendly results are a cause for quick rejection through finding anything that casts doubt on the argument.