minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink27•2 months agoI once asked a Randite about ‘Objectivism.’ “If theft is theft, doesn’t that mean we should hand all the land back to the Natives?” The answer was NO, because the Native Amercans weren’t using the land in the right way…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•2 months agoAn argument that goes back to Hobbes (which doesn’t make it right)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•2 months agoDidn’t Rand say that all the old philosophers were crackpots?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•2 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand Died 1982.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•2 months agoFinal Report Card History of Philosophy C+ Math D-
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 months agoI don’t know if this factors in but my rhesus factor is positive
I once asked a Randite about ‘Objectivism.’
“If theft is theft, doesn’t that mean we should hand all the land back to the Natives?”
The answer was NO, because the Native Amercans weren’t using the land in the right way…
An argument that goes back to Hobbes (which doesn’t make it right)
Didn’t Rand say that all the old philosophers were crackpots?
Guess what: She’s old now…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
Died 1982.
Almost the same year as Hobbes (1679)
Final Report Card
History of Philosophy C+
Math D-
Rhetoric B
I don’t know if this factors in but my rhesus factor is positive