tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post1650679988387456148..comments2024-03-27T03:00:27.024-04:00Comments on Facts & other stubborn things: Methinks thou doth protest too muchEvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259004160963531720noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-60371412739399521042012-09-26T21:23:39.508-04:002012-09-26T21:23:39.508-04:00Grammar troll!Grammar troll!Bob Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001108408649311528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-3947141098927680592012-09-26T19:46:42.005-04:002012-09-26T19:46:42.005-04:00Not that anyone cares at this point, but it should...Not that anyone cares at this point, but it should be "thou dost". "Doth" goeth with the third person singular. Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14943136764424893492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-70789209469014358722012-09-26T18:00:37.550-04:002012-09-26T18:00:37.550-04:00"Having a blog dedicated to arguing with Krug..."Having a blog dedicated to arguing with Krugman? That's trolling" <br /><br />Let me spam you with some Mises...<br /><br />"We call contentment or satisfaction that state of a human being which does not and cannot result in any action. Acting man is eager to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory. His mind imagines conditions which suit him better, and his action aims at bringing about this desired state. The incentive that impels a man to act is always some uneasiness. A man perfectly content with the state of his affairs would have no incentive to change things. He would have neither wishes nor desires; he would be perfectly happy. He would not act; he would simply live free from care."Xerographicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978832439622230018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-39668525800762116022012-09-26T11:57:31.541-04:002012-09-26T11:57:31.541-04:00Very true.
I should have made clear that you onl...Very true. <br /><br />I should have made clear that you only think <i>I'm</i> a troll, not Krugman fans generally.<br /><br />True - this post is something of a troll in itself (or is it a response to a troll?). But it's really trolling you (if it even is one), not a Krugman adoration troll.<br /><br />This is the other thing about trolling. One person's measured response to a troll is considered a troll by the troll (who thinks he's providing a measured response).<br /><br />Still, I'm not willing to grant complete symmetry here.<br /><br />If I say a celebrated economist says something right about economics, and explain why, it seems quite different from someone who says that a celebrated economist is an ideologue that botches economics.<br /><br />Right?<br /><br />I would gladly apply that paragraph to the way people talk about Hayek as well. Knee-jerk Hayek-haters are their own brand of troll.<br /><br />I do not think people who defend Hayek in comment sections are Hayek-fanboy-trolls.Daniel Kuehnhttp://www.factsandotherstubbornthings.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-82424508097094258422012-09-26T11:43:36.212-04:002012-09-26T11:43:36.212-04:00Also Daniel, I said in that link that Noah Smith s...Also Daniel, I said in that link that Noah Smith shouldn't have put in a pro-Krugman troll in his bestiary, because there really wasn't such a thing except Daniel Kuehn, and it would have been weird to just list you as a separate category.<br /><br />You described this situation as "Bob Murphy thinks I deserved my own entry in Noah Smith's bestiary..."<br /><br />This is what a troll does, isn't it?<br /><br />(I'm mostly kidding, though it is true that this entire post is based on the opposite of what I said.)Bob Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001108408649311528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-50706111649236491532012-09-26T11:40:44.315-04:002012-09-26T11:40:44.315-04:00I was already represented in the bestiary at least...I was already represented in the bestiary at least twice, possibly three times. And most people don't know they are trolls.Bob Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001108408649311528noreply@blogger.com