Darlo Debs
8:58 Mon Apr 13
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*Ayn Rand
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Darlo Debs
8:58 Mon Apr 13
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I cant think of that AnnRand book without thinking ofcOfficer Barbrady in South Park.....
.....Respect Ma Authoritaaay
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Fivetide
8:42 Mon Apr 13
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I don't think I have ever voted for the party in a general election that would directly benefit me personally the most.
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mentor
8:35 Mon Apr 13
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Policies more suited to Uranus.
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MrCrowmanSir
8:29 Mon Apr 13
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The Green party is full of bogeys.
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Iron2010
8:25 Mon Apr 13
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Nurse
I've got a four year old and a two week old and totally agree. I shouldn't have used the word unfortunately but suppose the world would be a better place if we treated our community like our family. Mind you many American cults act like this and that usually ends in mass suicide !
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Capitol Man
8:12 Mon Apr 13
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Nurse Ratched 8:03 Mon Apr 13
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To a point. But then at some point your self-interest lies in looking beyond your individual experience, which is where most to the silly little libertarians fall on their face.
Your offspring being a a publicly-subsidized university being a prime example. If he or you were expected to pick up the FULL cost of his education then it would be significantly less likely you would go.
Then you have the fact that a publicly-funded primary and secondary education system allowed him to get to the point he could go.
Even getting there he can likely take public transport (at least subsidised), use public roads.
His lecturers likely went through at least some publicly-funded education.
At some point almost every decision in "self-interest" ties back to one that's come about because of a decision made in the general interest.
Most of the silly little Rand devotees struggle to make the connections beyond their micro existence.
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Nurse Ratched
8:03 Mon Apr 13
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Iron2010 - what's wrong with that?
Both my adult children were at home last weekend (a rare occurance what with one of them at university and the other virtually living with their girlfriend).
At one point I looked at them over dinner and realised I would be quite happy for the rest of you apes to die screaming in a giant fireball for all I care.
Self-interest for yourself and your offspring is natural.
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Iron2010
7:55 Mon Apr 13
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Unfortunately most of us live as Rand describes with self interest as the over riding goal.
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Gavros
7:54 Mon Apr 13
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you take yourself too seriously infidel, son.
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Infidel
7:42 Mon Apr 13
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Gavros
You dislike me because I am a follower of Ayn Rand.
And you dislike Ayn Rand because people like me follow her.
Do you know what a circular argument is?
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Hermit Road
7:27 Mon Apr 13
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The Joker 5:14 Mon Apr 13
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It doesn't promote that view though does it? The fucking leader of the party is married to a foreigner.
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Gavros
7:25 Mon Apr 13
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Yep. As i said the fact that people like you get turned on by her is enough to put me off.
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Infidel
7:08 Mon Apr 13
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Gavros
"I havent bothered to ever read Ayn Rand"
but you'll give an opinion on her anyway?
Right, so long as we're clear.
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Gavros
5:39 Mon Apr 13
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nice one centurion!
i havent bothered to ever read Ayn Rand but one thing I do et from those that adhere to her is a dreadful whiff of righteous selfishness. We can all understand the selfish motive in humanity and the way it powers our world but such bare naked worship of it is distasteful in the extreme.
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westhammerer
5:36 Mon Apr 13
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Infidel 5:25 Mon Apr 13
'There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.'
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Gavros
5:33 Mon Apr 13
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William Rees-Mogg
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The Kronic
5:30 Mon Apr 13
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Infidel is Jacob Rees-Mogg. I'm sure of it.
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Infidel
5:25 Mon Apr 13
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Gavros
Everyone is a Hobbesian. How could one not be?
But sadly not everyone is a Randian.
The World would be a better place if Atlas Shrugged had been read by every schoolchild as a mandatory part of the curriculum since it was first published in 1957.
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Fivetide
5:22 Mon Apr 13
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It took a "Marxist idiot" to write: "So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot."
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Fivetide
5:21 Mon Apr 13
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"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
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