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[billysunerson]

(3 of 4) She has no condemnation either for soldiers who go back for their fallen brothers, because they are following their values. What she is against is the idea that men need to serve others in order to justify their existence, that his moral duty is to sacrifice, i.e. to give up a greater value for a lesser value; to be a sacrificial animal. She is against this idea being forced on everyone...

[billysunerson]

@billysunerson That seems to imply that if enough people believe what someone says, then it must be right. That would be the appeal to popularity fallacy. If Ayn Rand's philosophy is true, then it doesn't matter if even one person believes it. Some things are true whether you want to believe it or not. The only thing we need be concerned with is finding out if it is true based on its merits alone. The only standard to judge anything by is rationality and rationality alone.

[HaUriel1]

Loss of Freedom Alert:

Notice the cigarette smoke throughout the clip? That is also concrete evidence that our freedoms have slowly disappeared since this was recorded. The smoke Nazis would not allow their useful idiot, Mike Wallace, to get away with endangering Ayn and the film crew's lives with second-hand smoke today! 

[HaUriel1]

I like how Mike Wallace responds to Ayn's statement that he knows as well as she does that the country has never been offered a real choice by completely ignoring it and shifting the subject to the crony capitalists he accuses her of admiring.

The more things "change" the more they stay the same. There hasn't been a journalist who isn't bought and paid for since at least Mark Twain.

[MrAtlanticstar72]

I wonder if atlas will shield us from the suns radiation next year? Maybe he will drop the ball entirely

[bichepo]

@sdavis3398 the reason chemical companies CAN dump dioxin into waterways in spite of overregulation is because they are afforded protection of the government. In Rand's ideology, the government would not have as its agenda to protect companies 'that are too big to fail'. Realize all this regulation is an attack on small businesses, doesnt affect the multinationals. In the world of Rand's philosophy, the dioxin dumpers would face justice/do jail time if they caused harm.

[pastthebar]

I am reading Atlas Shrugged now. She is a great philosopher, but only a mediocre writer. She is way too verbose. The descriptions she uses should be summarized with dialog; but that's just my literary criticism. The book SAYS something, and that is the most important thing to take away.

[spectrumVerX]

@SanguineBullet667 Which is not the capitalism she was talking about. Governance by corporations is corporatism, not capitalism.

[SanguineBullet667]

dictatorship by corporations.

[AnarchoAssassin]

@sdavis3398 She would move to another area.

[Hanksand]

@generationkeeper Your about to se him shrug in a way that will shake Ron Paul into power!