An Objectivist on a Life Boat

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Uploaded by on Aug 27, 2008

Does ethics apply in emergency or "life boat" scenarios? In such situations, should one resort to cannibalism in order to survive?

NOTE: a transcription of this video is now available on my blog at:

http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2008/08/27/an-objectivist-on-a-life-boat/

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  • @SaveTheWheat Ayn Dumb Cunt Rand.

  • If a tree falls in an empty forest, it still makes a sound, bitches. The electron is there whether you are looking at it or not. What goes up must come down. Time to tear down all the stupid shit made up by scientists who live within a fragile god complex.

  • @neobudda1

    Scared?

  • @dsmelsergmailcom

    What dumb cunt?

  • How is eating the other guy irrational? The objective is to remain alive or relieve one's hunger, unless eating the other guy doesn't accomplish this objective I don't see how this would be irrational. If the hope is to drift unto land, eating something might just buy you enough time to still be alive when you drift unto land.That sounds rational to me.

  • This is ridiculous. I can't stomach anymore. Your understanding of subjectivism is absurd. Is there something in the kool-aid at Objectivist meetings that prevents every one of you from grasping any argument that didn't get shat out by that dumb cunt? It's really breathtaking how perfunctory the thinking of people who claim to idolize reason really is once you push past their sophistry.

  • Wow. You just completely dodged the question. "Cannibalism is short sighted." That's a fun game. Require the opposition to modify the hypothetical over and over (in this case by saying that eating the other person will allow the eater to survive until help arrives) until you get to the case that you always knew they were interested in in the first goddamn place: the place where the rubber meets the road and a decision has to be made between taking the other person's life or giving up yours.

  • Man survives only through collective effort. To stop the analysis at "man survives through rationality" is absurd. The most rational man in the world would live in a wild hell without the collective efforts of the rest of society. The Objectivist attempt to squat on the term rationality is nothing more than the attempt to beg the question of their own hideously immoral system of "morality" (basically anti-morality) by pretending that it has a rational basis beyond pure selfishness.

  • ayn is a whore and should be thrown overboard

  • and the pragmatist? 

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