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minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up27·6 days 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-squarelugal@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·6 days agoAn argument that goes back to Hobbes (which doesn’t make it right)
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 days agoDidn’t Rand say that all the old philosophers were crackpots?
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·6 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand Died 1982.
minus-squarelugal@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·6 days agoAlmost the same year as Hobbes (1679)
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·6 days agoFinal Report Card History of Philosophy C+ Math D-
minus-squarelugal@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days 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