happy to admit that Rand was correct about a number of things. She made more progress than most philosophers
Do you think you (or for that matter any other LW regular) could expand on this? provide a quick summary or list? Genuinely curious, since from the usual tone whenever Rand comes up on LW I don’t get the impression anyone sees anything of value in her writings.
that doesn’t justify letting the entire world burn around you just to make your point.
Hm… It’s not like he set the world on fire. He just withdrew his services. EDIT: Or what See said, I really need to first read threads I respond to. slap self
Hm… It’s not like he set the world on fire. He just withdrew his services
Well, depending on your view of the Trolley Problem and the like, you might consider them equivalent. But . .
Or what See said
And in that I didn’t even scratch the surface. For example, another thing people seem to forget is Project Xylophone. When a great scientific mind (Dr. Robert Stadler) chose freely to serve and support the government in Atlas Shrugged, the government used his discoveries to make a weapon that was useful only to kill its own citizens. That is the government Galt is supposed to work with to save the country? What weapon would they make of his motor?
Upvoted you, but,
Do you think you (or for that matter any other LW regular) could expand on this? provide a quick summary or list? Genuinely curious, since from the usual tone whenever Rand comes up on LW I don’t get the impression anyone sees anything of value in her writings.
Hm… It’s not like he set the world on fire. He just withdrew his services. EDIT: Or what See said, I really need to first read threads I respond to. slap self
Well, depending on your view of the Trolley Problem and the like, you might consider them equivalent. But . .
And in that I didn’t even scratch the surface. For example, another thing people seem to forget is Project Xylophone. When a great scientific mind (Dr. Robert Stadler) chose freely to serve and support the government in Atlas Shrugged, the government used his discoveries to make a weapon that was useful only to kill its own citizens. That is the government Galt is supposed to work with to save the country? What weapon would they make of his motor?
How is that? The difference seems to me obvious and enormous.