Yaron Brook's Call to Action - June 2010 (part 1)

Dr. Brook discusses the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, including BP's responsibility, the government's involvement, and how the situation should be handled.

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News & Politics

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• oil spill
• ayn rand
• yaron brook
• government
• regulations
• bp
• capitalism
• environmentalism
• industry
• individual rights
• property
• water rights

[highwind8124]

@RodCornholio

I know! And if prostitutes were greedier, they would want to suck your dick for the protein content of your semen. But they pass up on that precious resource because they're not as business minded.

[richardcadbury]

Obama has made a mess 1000 times worse than BP.

[1rstbreath]

@tehowe That is a strong response to Brook's position in this video, I like it. But I have to say I went the other way on it: I thought he presented a clear case for the Objectivist view. Though I may not have agreed completely, I found myself nodding my head *quite* a bit. Also, your comment about Peikoff stepping down from ARI is close to what I'd have to say about it. Brook may be the lesser of the two minds; I find myself agreeing with Peikoff much more frequently on issues.

[mkloppel]

@tehowe Sorry to hear that.

[needparalegal]

You people make me sick. You have no idea what your twisted philosophy is doing to the world. Greed at any cost to your "workers" and the environment. In order to maintain this status quo you put even more pressure on employees in order to keep them in a state of survival so they lose their own creativity. The suppression of technology and medical knowledge because it is more profitable to treat a chronic condition than cure it. There is no profit in "cheap" energy.

[snakeinthegrass20]

@RodCornholio The 'happening' is not the issue, it's about how it is being dealt with that is under discussion.

[loserhailose]

@tehowe Have you read Winning the Unwinnable War?

[tehowe]

*Sigh* Yaron almost succeeds in making me ashamed to be an Objectivist. Happily I can read and think for myself, and I unambiguously reject his positions on militarism and torture. He's either horribly uninformed on the nature of the expanding wars, the merger of corrupt corporations with the state and BP's crimes in the gulf - or he's guilty of intellectual deception. In either case, he does a great disservice to Rand's work and I dropped my support for ARI once Peikoff stepped down.

[RodCornholio]

@highwind8124

Your thoughts are genius. I'm HEADing over to my local whores to spread your idea.

[highwind8124]

"Is liable for damage to people's income, people's ability to fish, to the tourist industry... to creating a much more toxic environment for the next generation."

Whoa, take it easy with that collectivism there. Get back to talking about profit margins.