Posted on 11/01/2012 1:25:42 PM PDT by Red Badger
And I acknowledged as much in my post to you. But you knew that. But it begs the question, who gets to define "human being"? As it stands in this country, five supreme court justices have redefined the term to allow the wholesale slaughter of millions by denying their personhood, so I guess their rights aren't being violated, eh?
And why don't you address my hypothetical about the lowered age of consent?
Hypotheticals are the tools of fools.
Well, since you enjoy them so much, answer me this:
Would Ayn Rand have been willing to defend her beliefs with her life? Why or why not would that have been a selfless act?
>>>>Before you indict anyone, it might be a good idea to get the facts in the incident.
The facts in the incident are that she and her two young children were suppliants, begging a stranger for help during a desperate situation. The stranger rejected her plea, and her two young children died as a result.
>>>She did resist the idea that there was such a notion as a “moral duty,”
Only when the notion of “moral duty” involved self-sacrifice. That’s rather different.
>>>>Everything in life is not what it seems on the surface.
An excellent reason never to open your door at all, at any time, or for any reason, even for the FedEx guy or the pizza delivery boy.
In other words, the man in question during the storm was an agoraphobic paranoid kook, and you deeply empathize with his condition.
Splendid.
Monday night during the storm, the Moore home lost power; Mrs. Moore and the boys set out for her sister’s house in Brooklyn, police said.
As she drove near the 400 block of Capodanno Boulevard, a few hundred feet from the raging ocean, a tidal surge blasted the Island’s East Shore and sent a wall of water toward the family’s SUV, police said.
After the SUV stalled and the water rapidly rose, Mrs. Moore desperately worked to free her children from their car seats.
She put the brothers on the roof, but then another large wave broke and washed away the vehicle, Kelly said. “She started looking for them herself, asking people to help her look.”
Mrs. Moore was stranded in the marsh for several hours, at one point clinging to a fence for her life.
Finally, about 8 a.m., she flagged down a cruiser and recounted her harrowing tale to the officer, police said.
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/staten_island_weeps_at_discove.html
AP article from Nov 1...
So then, I'll posit the same question I asked in #63.
Do you think Ayn Rand would have been willing to defend her beliefs with her life?
Let's say that she had been able to establish a nation (or city state) of "Galt's Gulch" full of her die-hard adherents, all pledged to pure Randian Objectivism. Rand was able to write the Constitution and all the citizens voluntarily comitted to living according to Randian principles.
If Galt's Gulch came under attack from outside, would Rand have been willing to place her life in mortal peril to defend Galt's Gulch so that others might continue to enjoy the Objectivist paradise? Would she have expected others to?
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