Especially when there's no dialogue - here you had no right of reply. And you couldn't troll-rate for the "communist" ad hominem!
I'd like to believe that most people who read my question and Klaus' response will see that he got himself hopelessly tangled up. Same goes for some of the replies he made to other questions, even to a couple of softballs. He doesn't engage them, but instead tries to spin off his old frame, and he's not even really good at that.
In this respect, our American comrades have valuable experience to impart. See for instance www.scienceblogs.com/denialism
In particular, I like the Denialist's Deck of Cards - useful for both a good laugh and for recognizing and replying to CATO-style libertarian crankery (including global warming denialism).
Since the European right seems to have imported both its ideas and its "arguments" lock, stock and barrel from the US, I think it makes sense to look up the boilerplate responses that the American left has already prepared for us. At least as a starting point.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
What I tried to do with my question is turn the age-old conservative tome "whatever happened to responsibility" on its head. Responsibility only matters to the right when it comes to picking yourself up out of the gutter or being a small consumer duped by corporate criminals. When the left or the greens start talking about paying for negative external effects, responsibility suddenly vanishes a long way into the distance.
