To: Gail Wynand
"America could do much worse than to look to the works of Ayn Rand, for insight into a way out of our current ineffectual, politically correct morass."
Ayn Rand's philosophy hurts America and hurts capitalism. The West cannot survive without Christianity and/or Western ethics. Ayn Rand is a materialist, just like the Bolshevists she criticized.
Libertarianism is a rationalization for evil.
To: William James
The West cannot survive without Christianity and/or Western ethics.\
Are you suggesting that if it were to be conclusively proven tomorrow that God does not exist, that the West would collapse? Rubbish.
Western ethical practices have some roots in religion; however, they are also derived from the function of rational thought. Suggesting that it is impossible to have an ethical existence without a belief in God is ridiculous.
56 posted on
03/06/2007 4:13:43 PM PST by
snowrip
(Liberal? YOU HAVE NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT. Actually, you lack even a legitimate excuse.)
To: William James
Libertarianism is a rationalization for evil.Did you know that Ronald Reagan called libertarianism the "heart and soul of conservatism"?
81 posted on
03/06/2007 9:08:42 PM PST by
jmc813
(Rudy Giuliani as the Republican nominee is like Martin Luther being Pope.)
To: William James
Libertarianism is a rationalization for evil.
But legislating morality is a recipe for tyranny of the majority and the beginning of the end of individual liberty.
120 posted on
03/07/2007 1:07:16 PM PST by
TheKidster
(you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
To: William James
"Ayn Rand is a materialist, just like the Bolshevists she criticized."
Her criticism of materialists is scathing and lucid.
162 posted on
03/13/2007 8:51:31 PM PDT by
beavus
(People are rational in the mundane. Irrationality is left for those things they value most.)
To: William James
"Ayn Rand's philosophy hurts America and hurts capitalism...Libertarianism is a rationalization for evil."
I guess you haven't read her scathing criticism of libertarians.
163 posted on
03/13/2007 8:53:31 PM PDT by
beavus
(People are rational in the mundane. Irrationality is left for those things they value most.)
To: William James
Libertarianism is not a rationalization of evil, it is AFAIK an understanding that people are free to make their own decisions, good or bad, as long as they do not directly infringe on the rights of others.
In other words: we are both free to mind our own business.
197 posted on
04/12/2007 9:18:09 PM PDT by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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