Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: jennyp
Yeah, that says something about the morality of hereditary monarchies, doesn't it!

Yup -- it says that murder works for them. And in the atheist/evolutionary world, if it works, then it must be OK. It's the only moral judgement an evolution-only model of objective reality can support.

If evolution says it works, Ayn Rand certainly has no grounds for calling it wrong.

Of course the fact that she nevertheless called it wrong, says a lot about Ayn Rand's tendency to place her emotional desires above reason (flatly contradicting her own first principle). I say that because only an unwillingness to look can possibly explain her failure to see the logical consequences of her claims.

542 posted on 05/21/2002 3:34:45 PM PDT by r9etb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 532 | View Replies ]


To: r9etb
Yup -- it says that murder works for them. And in the atheist/evolutionary world, if it works, then it must be OK. It's the only moral judgement an evolution-only model of objective reality can support.

Murder works for whom??? It may work temporarily for the current top dog, but it sustains a system whereby that king is constantly in fear of assassination, and the gov't is left without a good succession policy, and I'm sure that atmosphere must lead to terrible policies in general. Not to mention what kind of example that gives for the society at large.

Silverback gorillas know of no other way of doing things, but humans have the possibility of eventually discovering other ways of doing things. It's here that governmental systems compete on the historical stage, and over the long run humanity approaches something like an objective understanding of the best possible governmental system: some kind of representative democracy, limited in power by a strong constitution. I think drastically different forms of government may survive for long periods of time, but only where the populace is mostly ignorant of the alternatives.

I think history confirms this pattern, but it also simply makes sense that a constitutionally limited representative democracy should be more compatible with human nature than any other system.

548 posted on 05/22/2002 12:25:19 AM PDT by jennyp
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 542 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson