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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Liatris Spicata who wrote (38196)10/12/2000 4:42:21 PM
From: Cary Salsberg  Read Replies (2) of 70976
 
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RE:Specifically, I want to dispute your depiction of Rand's philosophy as "survival of the fittest", at least not in the way that term is commonly applied. For Rand would in no way have countenanced the extermination of the "unfit" if it necessitated the use of force (as eliminating people normally does). She only would have denied any moral claim that they might have on wages of the "fit".

So, are you saying that Rand would have "countenanced the extermination" of the "unfit" if all it took was to allow them to starve and "she only would have denied any moral claim that they might have" on the food of the "fit."
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