Ayn Rand - Destroying Capitalism from Within

Ayn Rand explains the destructive forces working against capitalism. More videos and information on issues of liberty are available at http://www.LibertyPen.com

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[benthejrporter]

I'm in the middle of reading "The Fountainhead". It's an OK book.

[Jacob2Israel]

@XanKage i don't think she got into those details in this video, maybe i was hasty in my judgment, but yeah that sounds like she would say that, nice catch ; )

[XanKage]

@Jacob2Israel I am sorry, I agree with most of what you said, but Ayn Rand has explicitly stated that she finds moral judgment based upon faith highly immoral, and that good moral judgment can only exist by accepting reason (logic) as ones only absolute governing principle and doing what you, individually and as a consequence of your own thinking, find to be the most right. That is in no way preaching the Bible, let alone the doctrine of any of the Abrahamic religions.

[Jacob2Israel]

She is preaching the bible: love your fellow man AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF. You cannot love you fellow man MORE than you love your self, that would be a crime against your own skin. To love me more than you love yourself IS idealism gone to the extreme. To love someone more than you love yourself is to encourage them to forget about their own bills. If you subsidize life, your life will be demanded in return. To love someone more that you love yourself, is to accept slavery in the name of love.

[rsbarrett4991]

does anyone know where this speech was given... specifically?

[S1L3nCe]

Altruism is a positive attitude from one soul towards the well-being of another, not a must neither a sacrifice.

[mkloppel]

Next time any of you speaks with regard to Objectivism can you just do yourself a favor and referance the Ayn Rand Lexicon for specific concepts or OPAR for overviews of the philosophy before you go and make yoursleves sound like morons who have no clue about what they are talking about? Thanks.

-An objectivist

[Vindigary]

@philosophicalsceptic Well said. Her thought process is too rigid and presumptive.

[philosophicalsceptic]

@Vindigary Of course I agree there is no physical threat or any form of intimidation but I just don't think she considered other aspects of human development, for example she has no consideration for different soci-economic background or the even the intelligence that an individual being in naturally endowed with. I just think her way of thinking is very rigid, and gives hardly any room for interpretation....

[Vindigary]

@philosophicalsceptic Persuasion is not coercion. The individual still chooses to be persuaded or not.