I think if you will read more and think through it you'll see what the world would be like without capitalism, which appears to be your primary problem. You don't really have to imagine the world without capitalism, you need only look at the parts of the world that do not have it -- all is explained.
I think it is also dangerous to build your world view around the desire to get free music and software. Your points will also have much more weight if you will sign your name. But then of course you will then have to take responsibility for your posts.
Well, I think are at odds on this one with reading public and, well, the Library of Congress. You don't have to like it, but it is not factual to deny the influence. And I think you realize that because I don't think you would be getting so torqued up over the conversation otherwise.
According to a joint survey conducted in 1991 by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club, Atlas Shrugged is recognized as the "second most influential book for Americans today", after The Bible by numerous authors. It is also named as one of the "25 books that have most shaped readers lives" in a 1995-1996 list developed with the theme "Shape Your Future--READ!"
Your disrespect surprises me. Ayn Rand has had a dramatic and positive impact on the world you enjoy today. L. Ron Hubbard? Was that a serious comparison? Tom Cruise and Isaac Hayes (Scientologists) are not Alan Greenspan and Ronald Reagan (fans of Rand).
Once you do read up a little, you'll learn that fundamentally she illustrates simply that it is best if everyone chooses their own path and should not be forced to carry others.
Despite your callow question about the 911 firefighters, I will give you the courtesy of a serious reply. The 911 firefighters are heroes for many things, which I'm sure we would both agree on, but also in an objectivist sense, for the integrity with which they honored their job.
Good story, wrong lesson. The lesson is nature is nature and human nature is human nature. To deny it is to deny the sun and the earth. Stop living off others. You're making yourself miserable. Here's some homework for you:
You are not going to change the frog, the scorpion or the human. And they are all beautiful. But please, if I am wrong, please let me know when you've convinced the scorpion to share his food, his recordings and his software with you.
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I think it is also dangerous to build your world view around the desire to get free music and software. Your points will also have much more weight if you will sign your name. But then of course you will then have to take responsibility for your posts.
Tim Campbell timcam@gmail.com
As to her moral code, it may be out of whack with yours, but not with her own. Please be specific.
Tim Campbell
Yes, by their own choice.
According to a joint survey conducted in 1991 by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club, Atlas Shrugged is recognized as the "second most influential book for Americans today", after The Bible by numerous authors. It is also named as one of the "25 books that have most shaped readers lives" in a 1995-1996 list developed with the theme "Shape Your Future--READ!"
http://fixedreference.org/en/20040424/wikipedia/Ay n_Rand
Once you do read up a little, you'll learn that fundamentally she illustrates simply that it is best if everyone chooses their own path and should not be forced to carry others.
Despite your callow question about the 911 firefighters, I will give you the courtesy of a serious reply. The 911 firefighters are heroes for many things, which I'm sure we would both agree on, but also in an objectivist sense, for the integrity with which they honored their job.
Read up some more. You'll be much happier.
-Tim Campbell
http://www.aynrand.org/
or
http://www.atlassociety.org/
You are not going to change the frog, the scorpion or the human. And they are all beautiful. But please, if I am wrong, please let me know when you've convinced the scorpion to share his food, his recordings and his software with you.