Ayn Rand - Capitalism & the Common Good
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Uploaded by LibertyPen on Sep 17, 2011
Ayn explains how the concept of "common good" is really a wolf in sheep's clothing. http://www.LibertyPen.com
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Let capitalism reign over the earth, and the virtue of freedom will be assured!
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@ToxinalX Not a problem.
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@clemonsx90 Very good summary ! I added it to my own little "great comments given by others"-list !
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@bma051000 Very good explanation ! Thank you for caring to be selfish enough and educate me !
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@bma051000 2. You have to evaluate the moral status of a given action in the context of reality. In other words, as Aristotle not Plato. Plato would say: "Smoking is bad" without any context given, completely disconnected from reality. Aristotle would say that we need to go to reality first and evaluate the facts on the ground. What this means is that it's perfectly rational and moral to smoke a cigarrete (such as one a day) if it presents no threat to your life or other values.
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@ToxinalX There are two points to consider with this. 1. Ayn Rand was born in 1905. She lived in a time when it was not known conclusively to the general public that smoking tobacco habitually was indeed deleterious to one's health. I don't know the full details, but when both Rand and Peikoff were told by their physicians in the 1970s that they needed to quit smoking, they quit cold-turkey. Second point continued on next comment...
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@bma051000 One last thing... If wanting doing something for one self that in the end may cause harm to one self could be called whim whorship, instead of selfishness, then would that not include smoking cigarettes ?
(Ayn Rand smoked them didn't she ?)
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Ayn Rand for the win! The statist losers can't handle the truth so they're busy spewing their hatred.. Hihihihi!
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Oh, yay!
The marxist trolls are already spewing their hatred.
LeeFoxRox 5 months ago 49
Rand wields a vicious epistemic club, and collectivists know she can swing it.
Jac0bAndrew 5 months ago 36