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Ayn Rand: The Playboy Interview 1964

Posted by khalling 11 years, 6 months ago to Philosophy
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You will find some basic answers to questions you may have and some answers might surprise you

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  • Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I assume you're always into trying things you've done before but with new angles...no need to confirm or deny. (grinning)
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I appreciate real men. Those who stand on principle, do not apologize, and have my back. oh- they also say "no" for an answer
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We love you too. Ok, time for some Merlot...after a glass or two, there will be giggling...from LS?

    :) Good times.
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    Posted by bassboat 11 years, 6 months ago
    I have read AS 5 times plus I have listened to the audio that any times again. My conclusion is simple this, poor Ayn. She claims to be an Objectionist but she cannot see that we were created by a Creator. Look at a tree, how did that happen? There are so many signs of a Creator that her views are simply simplistic which in and of itself is strange for such an intelligent person. I can only conclude that she was affected by the 1917 Revolution that she lived through. Many of her views are like those of the Bible but she cannot acknowledge that as that would silence her argument for objectivism.
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, obviously property rights are protected, but Ayn Rand was more general than that in regards to the initiation of force. She simply said no man should ever engage in the initiation of physical force, and that physical force should only be used in retaliation against those who initiate it. Whether the force is initiated against a person themselves or against their property is a more specific question within the principle.

    Here's the Mises wiki entry on the term if you need a reminder of what it entails:

    http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Principle_of_...
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I would say that still qualifies as initiation of force. If you move to strike someone, that qualifies as initiation, even if the blow has not yet landed. The action is not yet complete, but it has been initiated.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What sort of influence has the interview had? Playboy's circulation at that time was two and a half million, so it surely introduced Rand and her ideas and books to a wide new audience.

    Ha ha ha!!! Most of that 2.5MM never even saw the interview.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    too simplistic of a question. Property rights are enforced. You break that? force follows
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Depends on how you define retaliation/initiation?

    Is preventative force accepted? Say, if your nose is in the flight path of my fist, if you kick my legs out from under me, was that acceptable? You had been under imminent threat of force, but not actually been subjected to it, but had used force pro-actively to ensure that you were not subjected to that force.
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Do you believe that physical force should only ever be used in retaliation and never in initiation?
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    well maph is going to say you are an advocate of NAP. regardless of how you have denounced this as a philosophical axiom....
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  • Posted by KYFHO 11 years, 6 months ago
    RAND: "A dictatorship has four characteristics: one-party rule, executions without trial for political offenses, expropriation or nationalization of private property, and censorship. Above all, this last. So long as men can speak and write freely, so long as there is no censorship, they still have a chance to reform their society or to put it on a better road. When censorship is imposed, that is the sign that men should go on strike intellectually, by which I mean, should not cooperate with the social system in any way whatever."

    Is there any difference between the old boy ruling class gop and the democrats? Did anyone else smell the stink of political winds when Breitbart died? And the reporter whose name escapes me, his car went out of control, to name only 2 of many deaths. Are there not extreme controls over private property and more and more eminent domain seizures? And can we even pretend to have free speech or lack of censorship within the msm?

    Thank-you for a great re-post and my true sympathies on your loss. I have been through the same.
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  • Posted by $ CBJ 11 years, 6 months ago
    I have the issue of Playboy with the Ayn Rand interview (March 1964), and it regularly sells on eBay for $10 to $15.
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