[MrEdd]

Yeah, I’m really eager to hear the early acolytes of the free love movement expound their moral theories.

Libertarianism went really weird and abandoned the belief that it was one’s personal responsibility to care for and properly raise the children one begat after it became contaminated by her. Now people asserting they hold libertarian ideal tend to fall in line with planned parenthood.

They ain’t my grandfather’s libertarians.

[aynrandfreak]

The essential characteristic of the Argument from Intimidation is its appeal to moral self-doubt and its reliance on the fear, guilt or ignorance of the victim. It is used in the form of an ultimatum demanding that the victim renounce a given idea without discussion, under threat of being considered morally unworthy. The pattern is always: “Only those who are evil (dishonest, heartless, insensitive, ignorant, etc.) can hold such an idea.”

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/argument_from_intimidation.html

[datricker]

Getting morality lesson from a woman who equated an abortion to an appendectomy was where I got off the objectivism train - this woman was a sociopath.

[YogicCowboy]

Most so-called libertarians today are merely libertines.

[gattaca]

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[jmacusa]

“When those who produce must seek permission to produce from those who produce nothing, your society is in decline. When the laws that are meant to protect you from the powerful protect the powerful from you, your society is in decline’’.

[onedoug]

I prefer God.

[MissEdie]

My 9 year old daughter asked me this weekend what my favorite book was. I told her Atlas Shrugged. I admire Ayn Rand’s intellect. Her view of the future is pretty darn eerie, especially considering what we endured from 2008-2016.

[thesearethetimes...]

Good morning FRiend ;)

[Publius]

Rand ping. The comments are interesting.