normativeRandroid

this presentation is so wrong in that it presents all deaths equally without reference to context. Equating deaths resulting from individual murders to terrorism to voluntary servicemen is unconscionable.

I was so excited then you lost me at Libet, yuck bad science!

@MsPerduta if not consciously chosen the moral code one accepts is influenced from society around them. No I don't believe in instincts or innate ideas I'm w/ Locke when he says that the mind is tabula rasa (blank slate). All our ideas are based on our experience of reality. Emotions are our auto...

Happy Randsday, Happy Birthday Ayn Rand

Whoopi didn't *live* in East Germany she vacationed in East Germany. Her ignorance on communism is baffling.

"...from Woost-tester-shyerr, near London (smiles)" Luvs it from America!

@LibertarianRealist she does not claim to define racism as involving innate ideas that would be a misreading on your part. Her definition does say that a person's ideas would be *determined* by their race. There is a difference btw innate ideas and determinism. Innate says the ideas are already t...

friedman is great on economic analysis but his argument has a huge pitfall in it and that is his utilitarian basis of gov't services. Ayn Rand has the consistent, principled approach to gov't that isn't utilitarian. Functions of the gov't are determined by the proper nature of gov't itself which ...

@7:15 To McGorry, the reason so many ppl are being tortured these days, as you point out, is b/c of that one man who was tortured 2,000 yrs ago and to this day ppl think it an admirable thing including that very audience. Do not discount theory or intellectual matters b/c that is precisely what i...

@4:10 excellent point Alex. All force used against innocent individ is evil

I enjoyed your enthusiasm in reading the essay and your interjections were well received. I like your point at the end about how the branches of philosophy are all interrelated and mutually reinforce on another. It's great that you recognize this aspect in Rand.

Major context dropping. His defense of private law enforcement in his examples (college, railroads, Disney) all occur within the context of a gov't enforced legal system. Poor thinking on his part. It's not the wild west at Disney b/c there is an ultimate authority above the Disney security and i...

@kainedamo Students should always have questions, but within the context of the classroom. Students shouldn't be dictating to the person their learning from as if they have all the answers. Students are there to learn from the teacher's greater context of knowledge. You may not agree w/ everythin...

@CosmicFork Good god get over yourselves! None of what you said had any truth but just fyi Ann O'Connor was Rand's legal name. Ayn Rand was a public figure w/ a public name and so to avoid fraud complications w/ her signature floating around she used her legal name when necessary. She never chang...

the finite resources argument, really? it's really hard to get a dialogue going when you have to teach your opposition basic economics

demos got own'd

well done ari you should develop more talks like this