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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The best argument against Rand is just listening to her for 5min.

Very rarely do you see such a mixture of arrogance, self-righteousness and utter lack of logic in a single person.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An argument that goes back to Hobbes (which doesn't make it right)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't Rand say that all the old philosophers were crackpots?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Guess what: She's old now...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Almost the same year as Hobbes (1679)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Final Report Card

History of Philosophy C+

Math D-

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I don't know if this factors in but my rhesus factor is positive

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Very rarely do you see such a mixture of arrogance, self-righteousness and utter lack of logic in a single person.

I know another orange example...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I learned some years ago that Rand wrote erotica before she wrote ""philosophy""

Then I read some of her porn. And everything clicked.

She let her self-indulgent porn fantasies leak into her philosophy, that's all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In other words - everything she accused the "others" of being.
What was it that she called them, again? I can't be bothered to look it up, let's see if I can remember...

Empathists? Philanthropists? Something like that.

EDIT: altruists!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Quick, get a time machine. For, uh, educational purposes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I remember Wil Wheaton saying this in The Guild, but was he also quoting Rand at the time?