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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (61209)	10/4/2002 7:07:24 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

They are similar but not the same thing. If you consistantly support a principle that normally works in your self interest then you will still support it when it does not work in your self interest enlightened or otherwise. Yes, I agree. What I meant was that I always applied it in terms of principles, not individual events. It has been forty years since I discovered Rand and I no longer can differentiate between what she said and what I have made of it. I have applied it in terms of principles, as you said, and I have found it to work superbly. how does it encourage anyone (except perhaps you) to steal in the future? It doesn't. But if you take the principle approach, you support honesty anyway. And, even if your act doesn't directly encourage embezzlement, it creates a negativity that could be indirectly contagious. My stomach is growling and I'm running out of steam. Later...