If you are not a fan of Ayn Rand, why are you in the Gulch?
Posted by Mamaemma 10 years, 6 months ago to Philosophy
And if someone is a fan of Ayn Rand, does that mean that that person understands and agrees with her philosophy?
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While we're very happy to have you in the Gulch and appreciate your wanting to fully engage, some things in the Gulch (e.g. voting, links in comments) are a privilege, not a right. To get you up to speed as quickly as possible, we've provided two options for earning these privileges.
This labeling immediately discredits and halts discourse , dialog and ultimately reason and objectivity. It is used to be dismissive of an alternate viewpoint. Certainly not curtious or thoughtful.
Jan
I saw this by chance after four months. I'd never thought of non-rival before, so I find it interesting.
"our examples all were supposed to be available to anyone"
Actually, I was suggesting they're in the eye of the beholder. I imagined that for each one, someone could says, "this program is charity for [some group]", and someone else could say, "sure the money is paid to that group, but having that program in the country benefits us all, and we can't turn it off those who don't want to pay for it."
Jan
I have actually heard the victory song of the women of Helium sung. (A modern folk artist wrote and sung it.)
Jan
Jan
Not sure which book it was but I think it was Pirates of Venus that talks about living in the trees away from the ground people(Read them over 40 years ago). Isolated from the corruption.
Jan, rescued handsome princes on Mars
Edit to include where princes were
Jan
Thanks!
There are many related issues about how government programs could be replaced by markets. Quite a few years ago I ran across a very good book that discusses these issues: "The Market for Liberty by Linda and Morris Tanhill". I think you would find it quite interesting and much better at illustrating how most government run services can be better handled by the market than my simple example of roads above. One can find this "now free" book at: http:/mises.org/library/market-liberty-1
but that presumes integrity;;; as soon as I think of
enforcement, there's that word "force" and I get
wary or apprehensive or scared of the whole line
of thought. -- j
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