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minus-squareleisesprecher@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up53·1 year agoThe 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.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up22·1 year 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-up9·1 year agoAn argument that goes back to Hobbes (which doesn’t make it right)
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoDidn’t Rand say that all the old philosophers were crackpots?
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·1 year agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand Died 1982.
minus-squarelugal@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoAlmost the same year as Hobbes (1679)
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoFinal Report Card History of Philosophy C+ Math D-
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-21 year 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…
minus-squareniktemadur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoIn 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!
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.
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 know another orange example…
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!