George Will on rationality, principles, and reality.
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Jan ... are you an Objectivist?
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"[W]e have known the only possible combination that produces abundance is Capitalism and Free Markets." Read "Bad Samaritans" by Ha-Joon Chang; you'll find the empirical reality is not as this statement suggests.
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The Principle of Self Interest helped determine the Laws of Supply & Demand. Self Interest is our perceived or anticipated psychological or material benefit we expect to gain. What is a choice we can choose that is NOT subject to Self-Interest i.e. do NOT receive a psychological or material benefit? Ayn Rand, qualifying the term self-interest as rational or irrational self interest, is pathetic ignorance. Self Interest, dictates all human choice or the Laws of Supply & Demand, fail
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Ever since Adam Smith introduced Classical Economic Theory and the Laws of Supply & Demand we have known the only possible combination that produces abundance is Capitalism and Free Markets. The same self interest that generates abundance in a Free Market guarantys Scarcity and Shortages in Controlled Market economies (Socialist/Communist). If it can not be made to work in theory, then how is it supposed to work in reality, as an applied but doomed disaster? LAWS OF SUPPLY & DEMAND not MAYBE'S
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What a douchebag
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That anyone actually listens to George Will on anything is truly amazing. All those crummy books. All that nonsense. America should be deeply, deeply ashamed.
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Hmm... this George Will fellow seems to grasp the contingency and social constructedness of rationalism while the interviewer believes in Objectivist fallacies about facts (an outmodded positivist view of science we might say). Yet Will doesn't attack him on this point specifically.
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We need George Will for president!
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@SSgtParmer ha. he did nothing of the sort. George Will made helfeld look like a child--and not a particularly bright child.
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The interviewer is a complete douche who thinks it's all about him. You come across as a total loser.
TulaneGator 2 years ago 8
Interesting conversation. I would be interested in what Will considers a contradiction to be.
ForkCheck 8 months ago