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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (18365)	10/7/2004 2:10:10 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

That was an excellent read. Rand describes the issues succinctly, and she finds most of the obvious flaws of contradiction. As an example, it is patently clear that invention, discovery, awareness, and growth do NOT rest on the shoulders of others...regardless of that we go to the same salt licks. It is quite obvious that two (or two million people) could all discover fire, or the wheel as an independent act apart from one another in space--by transforming sensation to perception to conception. The fact that people learn from their environment (which includes other people) gives no support whatsoever to any argument against individualism. And the fact that fear and desire are motivators does not negate human choice and value. Yet these are the hidden premises that are used by the mystics of "mind and muscle" as Rand calls them. Human progress proceeds on thousands of pathways through valleys and mountains and around corners of the unknown. The fact that there are people behind us does not entail there is anyone ahead of us. Who would be ahead of them? Who runs ahead of time? Every path is an individual one. We leave our own trail and our footprints are separate from all others.