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

To: koan who wrote (26989)	8/28/2009 8:01:18 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"We forbid slavery..." Let me point out the obvious. Your voice is a whisper next to Rands in that regard! Let us go over the interview! He starts with a transparent and deliberate hostility and attempt to mislead: "What is Rand ISM" Her alertness and incredible intellect are obvious from the very start. She corrects him and moves along! At every step of the conversation her responses are absolutely consistent with her philosophy. It doesn't matter that she is speaking a foreign tongue. She is still able to speak in subtleties, hues, and shades! (could you or I go to Russia and do an interview in Russian!!)?? If you could find me ONE sentence in that interview that seems to you to be erroneous I would love to hear it and discuss it. JUST ONE! "Einstein's theory of relativity has proven without a doubt that there is no objectivity" That is irrelevant to this. You and I believe in living by certain values. Values flow from objective premises. A subjective society is a society with no values-- or capricious values. Rand states clearly in the interview that human beings survive by their mind and that therefore reason is an absolute. And at the level humans live and survive in (somewhat different that that fellows cats)...this IS AN ABSOLUTE. WITHOUT A MIND, WE ARE NOT ANYTHING! AND WITHOUT REASON I GUESS WE COULD SCREW THE DOORPOST OR SOMETHING VALUABLE LIKE THAT... Please don't pretend that a great philosopher's views are "subjective" while pretending that yours have true value!