[extropy-chat] Rand

[Walter_Chen at compal.com]

Rand's absolute Objectivism is just at the one extreme of life.
Of course, the other extreme is the subjectivism.
It's better to be at the middle way to see the world.
This world includes everything, not just one extreme.
 
Thanks.
 
Walter.
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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Al Brooks
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 3:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Rand


The Randians may be 'playing dumb'. Over & over again I've had
communications - or lack thereof- with coy respondents. What Randians appear
to be saying is, to paraphrase a conservative dictum, 'that which is not
unambigiously conservative tends to erode towards something else'. In the
case of Randians, they might be saying, 'that which is not pro- free market
and work ethic tends to erode towards command economics and evasion of
responsibilities', and this is clear & understandable; however when Randians
act like martinets, even if they are merely putting on an act,  they can
only hope to snare those who are susceptible to rope-a-dope rhetoric. 
 
 
John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:[...] they just quoted Ayn Rand back at
me as if what she said was more important than Bell's experiment or Godel. I
said a lot of stuff they didn't like very much but then I said something
that made the howls of
protest reach a crescendo and they looked for the tar and feathers. The
dreadful blasphemy I dared to utter is this:

"We've suspected for 80 years and known with certainty for nearly 40 that
some events have no cause and are random.
I mean, I liked Atlas Shrugged as much as anyone but if Ayn Rand tells me
one thing and experiment tells me another it's no contest; I'm a rational
man so I have to go with experiment."

I don't believe I will go back there.

John K Clark jonkc at att.net





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