[spunkets]

" Objectivism does not provide a logical alternative, both because it is so easy to show that it's self-contradictory, and also because it's contrary to many of the tenets of traditional morality that have proven themselves to be effective over centuries, and which people know to be true even if they cannot articulate them."

You've demonstrated neither. You've not pointed out the contradictions, nor have you pointed out where it's contrary to traditional morality whatever that is.

[tpaine]

The 'traditional moralists' here at FR simply ~do not~ believe in the principles of a free private life, liberty under due process of law, or the unfettered pursuit of private property & "happiness".

Nope, we must abide by "the tenets of traditional morality that have proven themselves to be effective over centuries", -- those that they proclaim to be absolute.

---- "The utterly insufferable arrogance of power, and the need for it, is an absolute fact of the human condition. -- Nothing can be done about it. - Just as the poor shall always be with us, so shall we have these infinitely shrewd imbeciles who live to lay down their version of 'the law' to others."
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