Atlas Shrugged

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[tsummerlee]

Promise me something. Promise that you'll read it again in 10 years, when you're out of school, hopefully working and in a great career, but without skipping the most imporant part of the whole novel. Trust me, you'll get so much more out of it if you do.

[Grintoth]

@tsummerlee But it's so DENSE.

[CooleyReviews]

@tsummerlee Some people have ethics and those people don't like Atlas Shrugged. Sorry.

[ImThinkingShhhh]

I put this book down after half way. I couldn't take anymore . I did the same thing with fountainhead.

[xxkevinisgreatxx]

Hello...long time no see

So to change the subject how about that ps vita pretty cool huh? I think I might get it when it releases here. What do you think?

[ppw00]

@tsummerlee It has value *to me*, Mr. Intrinsicist.

[tsummerlee]

@ppw00  Failed in the eyes of a relativist. Your opinion couldn't have less value.

[ppw00]

@tsummerlee "young individual". The failed attempt to replace the word 'kid' with something that sounds less condescending.

[tsummerlee]

@CooleyReviews Sorry, young individual, but ethics is indeed a science. In what way are people "selfish enough?" What does that even mean when at every single turn people are taught to deny their own lives for the sake of others who are taught the same thing? Who lives for whom, if not for him/herself? If you have no selfish interest in this exchange, why are you here? The fact that you choose to live at all proves how very selfish you, and everyone else is.

[CooleyReviews]

@tsummerlee Slavery, murder, theft, and corruption are obviously all bad things. I'm not talking about those things. I'm saying that selfishness is bad and that promoting selfishness doesn't make sense when people are already selfish enough. There are a whole bunch of other examples that people can debate about: when we should go to war, the role of government in our lives, people's free rights, etc. Ethics is not a science. At most it could be considered a social science.

[CooleyReviews]

@tsummerlee Slavery, murder, theft, and corruption are obviously all bad things. I'm not talking about those things. I'm saying that selfishness is bad and that promoting selfishness doesn't make sense when people are already selfish enough. There are a whole bunch of other examples that people can debate about: when we should go to war, the role of government in our lives, people's free rights, etc. Ethics is not a science. At most it could be considered a social science.

[tsummerlee]

@CooleyReviews  Its possible to prove slavery is moral? You're saying there is a rational moral argument for murder, theft, and corruption. You're saying that there are no moral standards to the human condition. You don't know what you're talking about. I'm not talking Rand here, but 2000 years of philosophical discipline, which you'll deny for the sake of what you claim to "like." Ethics is a science, not a rule book. Ethics are principles to live by, not dictates to avoid death.