From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 22:01:53 MDT
At 08:30 PM 6/13/03 -0400, Michael Dickey wrote:
>I feel Rand makes compelling arguments for an
>objective basis for ethics, but I admit I am not yet intelligent enough to
>fully defend or even comprehend them.
Ahem. Well, I have been wondering about this (idly, you understand), since
I assumed that you'd be a fan of Randian ethics. As I recall, John Galt and
all the other supermen of reason abandoned the suffering people of the
world and beat their retreat to a high mountaintop, leaving the world to
crash and burn under the malign hands of losers, freeloaders, collectivists
and unattractive people with names along the lines of Sneaky Weems. Would
John Galt have supported a state invasion of Iraq? Would he have supported
an invasion of collectivized USA, for that matter? Not as I read it.
Damien Broderick
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