Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“One reason not to use bad arguments is that while persuasive bad arguments may persuade people who cannot see through them to accept their conclusion they will persuade those who can to reject it — and smarter people are more worth convincing. The more fundamental reason is that if there are good arguments for your conclusion you can use them instead and if there are no good arguments for it you should not be defending it. Here is a list of bad arguments used to defend libertarian positions and good arguments to replace them with.” (05/21/25)