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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.
60 0 ReplyI 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...
27 0 ReplyAn argument that goes back to Hobbes (which doesn't make it right)
10 0 ReplyDidn't Rand say that all the old philosophers were crackpots?
11 0 ReplyGuess what: She's old now...
8 0 Replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
Died 1982.
7 1 ReplyAlmost the same year as Hobbes (1679)
2 1 ReplyFinal Report Card
History of Philosophy C+
Math D-
6 1 ReplyRhetoric B
4 0 ReplyI don't know if this factors in but my rhesus factor is positive
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I know another orange example...
22 0 ReplyI 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.
5 0 ReplyIn 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!
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